Author: Joachim Rang
Date: 11:24:53 09/22/05
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On September 22, 2005 at 14:15:48, William Sorin wrote: >Hi > > Today I went down to PC-Club and was able to spend 330.00 bucks for a Athlon >Dual core 3800. My primary interest in a new processor is for chess, To my >surprise the clerk actually discouraged me from buying this processor. He told >me that i would be wasting my money and that a regular athlon64 3500 would be a >cheaper and better buy. Unless i was running multiple applications the clerk >told me i would not see a significant speed up over the regular athlon64. Now >I'm not rich and I am hoping to be able to overclock the dual core 3800 to 4400 >speeds. Can someone tell me if I'm making the right decision to go for the dual >core 3800. Like I said my main interest is a monster machine for chess!! it is the right choice. However you need Deep-Version of Chess engines, which support more than one processor, such as Deep Fritz, Deep Shredder, Deep Sjeng, Deep Junior etc. Joachim
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