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Subject: Re: Don't want to waste my money please help?

Author: Rajen Gupta

Date: 12:03:54 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!!

the other aspect is being ble to play eng vs eng mathes wih ponder on-this is th
only way tht yo will get a true idea of engine strength

rg



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