Author: Ernest Bonnem
Date: 07:08:23 12/21/01
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The main reason why TSCP doesn't run too bad on P4 is that it is a very small program that runs mainly in the L1 cache, which is not the case for the main other chess programs. By the way, Aaron, how did you achieve 1.81GHz ? what cooling, what mainboard, did you modify the voltage ? On December 21, 2001 at 09:04:53, Aaron Gordon wrote: >Just upgraded to an Athlon XP 1.6GHz, 1900+ overclocked to 1812MHz, 512mb DDR, >fsb is at 151MHz(302MHz DDR) and I'm using a KT266a chipset. > >Under Windows XP here are some of my chess benchmarks. >Fritzmark (Fritz 5.32 64mb hash) = 1191 (6.9s) >1716Knps > >Also in a reply I saw it said the Pentium 4 was faster at TSCP, not hardly. >Here are my new results: >Nodes: 550822 >Best time: 1682 ms >Nodes per second: 327480 (2226.2 MIPS) >Also look at my old 1GHz tbird @ 1.67GHz at the TSCP benchmark page. It is >located at http://home.earthlink.net/~tckjr/bench.html > >As for Crafty.. The Pentium 4 gets annihilated once again. > > >Crafty v18.11 > >White(1): bench >Running benchmark. . . >...... >Total nodes: 104161030 >Raw nodes per second: 1132185 >Total elapsed time: 92 >SMP time-to-ply measurement: 6.956522 >White(1): quit >execution complete. > >If you'd like to compare Crafty results go to this page I made go here: >http://12.255.147.62/crafty/bench.html > >As you can see even a Celeron 1GHz CPU beats a Pentium 4 1.5GHz at chess... >If ANYONE is even remotely considering a Pentium 4 for chess after seeing these >benchmarks they they must be out of their mind...
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