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Subject: Re: Intel Willamette and chess

Author: Howard Exner

Date: 07:33:33 02/17/00

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On February 17, 2000 at 07:49:39, Dan Andersson wrote:

>It might not be such a hot processor after all, twenty stage pipeline!? And a
>probable equal performance as the PIII at same clock speeds. The 30% increase in
>performance seems to come from a 30% increase in clockspeed. The SSE
>instructions are to limited for use in a chess program it would seem.
>See the link http://www.aceshardware.com/Spades/read.php?article_id=113

Nice explanation here. As always it will come down to testing real applications.
Athlon Thunderbird looks good too.



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