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Subject: Re: Need help: which is faster for chess 1.4 athlon or dual pIII 1.0ghz

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 18:00:44 09/13/01

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On September 13, 2001 at 10:41:05, Slater Wold wrote:

>On September 13, 2001 at 08:37:43, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>On September 12, 2001 at 19:49:32, Slater Wold wrote:
>>
>>>On September 12, 2001 at 19:27:18, ERIQ wrote:
>>>
>>>>I generally run linux so would love to have dual system but am not sure which
>>>>would run crafty faster the single athlon or dual pIII's. but I am sure they are
>>>>both faster than what I have now a 433 cel. :(
>>>>
>>>>(must upgrade fast)
>>>>
>>>>Let me also say that I would like something under $2,000 us. and would not mind
>>>>building it myself.
>>>>
>>>>I would be using it for general stuff, trying to write programs in C,C++, and of
>>>>course chess mostly my database programs and playing programs Yace,CT,Crafty
>>>>etc.
>>>>
>>>>main reason for upgrade is any time you are compiling something and try to do
>>>>something else, it gets sooooo slooooow.
>>>>
>>>> sign,
>>>>    Eriq
>>>
>>>I have owned BOTH machines, and the 2x1000mhz will be faster.  (On SMP
>>>applications.)
>>>
>>>
>>>Slate
>>
>>What's that for nonsense?
>>
>>I own both a P3 dual and a dual 1.2MP and the dual 1.2MP blows away
>>anything i had before.
>>
>>a) the bandwidth from DDR ram is 2 times that of sdram
>>b) the processor is nearly 2 times faster.
>
>I have owned a 2x1000mhz before.  And I (essentially) own a single 1.4Ghz now.
>He was NOT talking about dual 1.4's - just a single.
>
>The bench on Crafty with 1 AMD 1.4Ghz is about 800k nps.  The dual 1000mhz was
>1.1M.
>
>Like I said, on SMP applications, the 2x1000mhz will be faster.

oh sorry i missed the single versus dual.

Well there is also a dual AMD possibility and it sure is faster than
a single AMD :)

>
>Slate



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