Author: Charles Worthington
Date: 05:40:31 02/18/03
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On February 18, 2003 at 01:37:40, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >On February 17, 2003 at 23:51:46, Charles Worthington wrote: > >>Bob please tell me that I didn't just spend 18,900$ on this Dual 3.06 xeon >>ststem for no reason...I certainly hope there will be a significant performance >>increase over the amd 2400mp and xp. The fastest AMD on playchess pulls around >>2300 kns with deep fritz 7. I had hoped with dual 3.06 xeons and the new intel >>E7505 chipset i would exceed 3000 kNs. Was this unreasonable of me to expect >>this much speed? > >you do realize that even if you got a speed increase of 30% it would be good for >maybe 20 elo? That's about 800$ per elo point. That is a sweet system though. >Hope you have a good job :) > >anthony 20 Elo? Perhaps that's what the math says but that figure is certain way off base. I play on the Fritz 8 GUI constantly and I can assure you that the Dual Machines there are the only machines that are consistently maintaining elos of 2800 or more. There are only a few single cpu system even in the ballpark range of that (mine is one of them). Of course I am discussing a speed increase here of more than the 30% you mentioned. As a whole though even the 2.8 and 3.06 GHz single cpu systems are considerable higher in elo than the 2.2 GHz Systems. Perhaps some would argue that the elo figures on the chessbase server are inflated and to a point that would be true but it is still the strongest chess room and engine testing ground on the planet and many Grandmasters have gotten their clocks cleaned when they made the mistake of straying into the engine room.
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