Author: Alain Lyrette
Date: 15:07:59 09/11/99
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On September 11, 1999 at 04:47:18, Baldomero Garcia, Jr. wrote: >Every once in a while the topic of computer processors shows up. >Well, I was just looking at the "computer shopper" and they were talking about >the K-7 Athlon, from AMD. It looks like the 600 MHZ Athlon is faster than the >PIII 600 MHZ. Independent testing from a video game magazine seemed to confirm >that point of view. > >Has anybody had a chance to use computer programs with this processor? >It definitely seems interesting. >btw, there is also a 650 MHZ version of the Athlon too, but I'm not sure it's >that big a jump from the 600 MHZ. > >Baldo. Well as you know,the improvement seen in the Athlon over the pentium relies mainly in the floating point domain;since chess programming has absolutely nothing to do with fpu the Athlon is a bit of a let down.Sure it's about 10% faster than it's intel rival in integer but so was the k6-3.Of course the Athlon as already reach the speed of 650mhz while the k6-3 is limited at 450mhz for now.That would be good for a 30-40 elo improvement but not more.So the k7 is certainly no breakthrough for chess programming.But if you like to play 3D games too the thing screams.....
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