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Subject: Re: New processorgenaration and chessprograms

Author: Hannu Wegner

Date: 02:42:11 02/06/99

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Hi Alain,

Thanks for your answer. Do you something about releasedates or where it is
possible to get this infomation? I would like to know how much the k6-3 or the
K7 will increase the perfomanse compare to the K6-2. Perhaps somebody know
something about this,

Best greetings,
Hannu Wegner


On February 05, 1999 at 14:16:15, Alain Lyrette wrote:

>
>As far as the pentium 3 is concern it will have no effect at all since this cpu
>is nothing more than a pentium 2 with special 3d instructions which are of
>course completely useless with chess playing programs.(But expect an increase in
>speed.500 mhz).                                                         The
>k6-3(which is late as every new amd cpu is)is another story.256kb of cache will
>be added directly on the chip.Now that will increase the speed of the cpu by a
>good margin.Cache is fairly important with chess playing programs.But the k6-3
>will be limited at 450mhz.
>                                           The k7 will begin at 500mhz but will
>have a bus speed of 200mhz.That's the one everybody is waiting for....



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