Author: Bertil Eklund
Date: 05:54:36 11/06/00
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On November 06, 2000 at 01:40:47, Christophe Theron wrote: >On November 05, 2000 at 14:10:11, K. Burcham wrote: > >>chris, that was funny. but the first chance i get, i will upgrade to the new >>dual athlon motherboards, with the dual athlon mb--you should get a minimum of 3 >>gig mhz, or sys.com is advertising a new 1.6 at their site (kyro), dual 1 gigs >>are all over the internet, i have (dual processor) diep, dj, and will get deep >>shredder as soon as it is available, i also have most of the single proc. >>programs. i have ordered rebel 11, the new millinium package, cm8000, and i have >>the powerbook, nalimov and ken thompsons tbs. i see that the 1.5 gig p4 is >>available on the internet. this should be available with a dual mb by jan. or >>feb. with a 3 gig dual setup with my dj---you should get about 1650 kns. like i >>said, when i read about all this hardware, i start sweating, and then i call my >>boss and tell him i need to work some overtime. i dont do drugs and i dont drink >>thunderbird, but i enjoy these programs, and overclocking my processor to see >>how it responds. my 1050 is boring because i want to see what gambit-tiger will >>do running on an 1800 mhz k7 or k8 with about 4 sticks of 128 megs of the new >>ddr ram. i am very aware that there is more to comp chess than just hardware, >>and i am very aware of the accomplishments of robert, chris, amar, shay, stefan, >>ed, etc., but i am having a blast. > > > >If your pleasure is on hardware, great. Personally the hardware evolution makes >me dizzy. > >I still test Tiger on 386sx-20MHz (if you know what it is :), and my dream is to >make Tiger the strongest program in the world on that hardware. > >I play "mine is bigger than yours" with software only. Knowing that my processor >is going to consume in just one day more Watts than some people in the third >world will use in their whole lifetime does not make me especially happy. > >So you can guess what I think about multiprocessor computers. > >Sorry to spoil the Gigahertz party. I'm not mother Theresa, but sometimes I feel >a little bit guilty. Which does nothing to solve the problem, I know, I know... Hi! Can your program win against Genius in blitz on a 386? It's better than Genius in blitz on todays computers but not with a large margin. It's of course clearly better on all longer time-controls. Bertil > > Christophe
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