Author: Paul Petersson
Date: 08:55:55 01/30/99
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On January 29, 1999 at 20:25:14, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >On January 29, 1999 at 19:29:09, Bertil Eklund wrote: > >>First of all very much thank you for your interesting tournaments! > >Thank you for your list 10x. :) > >>As you know SSDF are going to upgrade in the near future and we have to take a >>decision in march or so. Do you have any figures on the speed increase for >>programs on the P2-400 vs P200MMX. > >The PII-400 is just twice as fast as the P200MMX except for Fritz 5, that runs >only 1.6 or 1.7 times faster on the PII-400. > >>Do you or others have any proposal for what >>to choose (best for money). We can´t afford xeons or Kryotech-AMDs or a fragile >>overclocked celeron. The P3-500 looks good but is rather expensive. What about >>the new AMD. I hope someone can publish some tests with the new AMD if it is >>better than Intel I think we could choose AMD. I hope we can have some facts in >>this case before a decision in early march. > >I would go for the fastest possible P3. It's more expensive, but it will be >useful for one year more than the others. Why would the P3 be more useful than AMDs K6-3 450/500 MHz? I don´t understand your reason for this statement. The P3 is basically only a P2 with the new MMX 2 instructions and a slight increase in clockspeed. No increase in L1 size or L2 size, and still they charge a very hefty price for it. Paul Any rationalization to get the fastest >processor is welcome. :) > >And of course 256MB RAM, or else the fast searchers won't be all that happy. > >Enrique > >>Bertil
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