Author: Charles Worthington
Date: 09:53:14 02/18/03
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On February 18, 2003 at 12:02:36, Robert Hyatt 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? > > >I hope you didn't really mean "18,900 dollars". > >Current prices are: > >dual 2.8xeon + chassis + 2gb RAM, plus 2 x 36 gig U320 15K scsi drives, plus the >usual HD power supply, etc, for under $4,000. You mentioned 146 gig scsi >drives. >I bought three of those for my new ftp machine (there are no 15K 146 gig SCSI >drives that I am aware of so you take a rotational latency performance hit by >backing >off to 10K) and paid just under $1,000 each at MicroWarehouse. > >If you meant 8,900, that is closer to reality, although it seems high to me >looking at >dell prices. > >I can't answer the speed issue with respect to fritz. Crafty on my dual 2.8 >runs at about >2.5M nodes per second. This is with the quad-pumped 100mhz (400mhz claimed) >FSB. >Newer xeons are quad-pumped 133mhz (533mhz claimed) and should be even faster. >I'd >suspect Crafty might get close to 3M on that machine, in a position where it >gets 2.5M on >mine. I have no idea whether fritz is faster or slower in raw NPS however... My mistake...the drives are 10,000 RPM BOB but the price quote is correct. I bought the machine with all available options including the 4GB RAM and filled all hard drive bays with the largest drives. The biggest expense though was the memory. around 4 thousand if i remember right
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