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Subject: Re: CPU or Bus ??

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 16:33:52 02/23/00

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On February 23, 2000 at 17:15:14, Aseldar Salautdinov wrote:

>What's better for TOP chess engings frequency of system bus or frequency of CPU
>??
>For example which hardware fastest for chess:
>
>CPU-XX 500MHz with 66MHz bus
>or
>CPU-XX 400MHz with 133MHz bus
>
>Thanks.

You should go for the faster processor.

Bus speed typically doesn't matter for chess programs, because most fast
processors these days have lots of fast ( > FSB speed) cache.

-Tom



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