Author: Frank Phillips
Date: 04:10:08 06/08/03
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On June 07, 2003 at 22:19:45, Jon Dart wrote: >Cache size is quite important for many chess programs, as they can involve a lot >of memory access. Increasing the cache hit percentage helps performance because >cache access is much faster than regular memory access. P4 Xeons, the latest >"Northwood" P4 desktop chips, and the newer Athlons have 512MB L2 cache. > I struggled with the decision about 2.0GHz 256kB T'bred versus 1.8GHz (and allegedly faster) 512kB 333MHz FSB Barton, but finally price won and went with the 2.0GHz T'bread. Did you try Arasan on the 2.0GHz T'bred to compare to your Barton? >Re RAM the latest thing is dual-channel RAM, which some chip sets support (e.g. >Nvidia for Athlons). But the advantage there is not really dramatic. > I also bought an abit nforce2 board. The memory bandwidth is increased over my Asus via chipset, but makes no difference for chess as far as I can tell. Plus getting two matched RAM sticks can be problematic, unless you buy corsair xms or similar. >--Jon
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