Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 06:39:20 11/11/03
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On November 11, 2003 at 08:50:53, Aaron Gordon wrote: >It would be better had they used a quad or 8-way Opteron running 2GHz or more. >From some testing I've done in the past you can figure a single Opteron 2GHz == >a P4-3.6GHz in Fritz 8 (32bit mode). So, a Quad Opteron 2.0 == Quad P4-3.6. >Almost 30% faster, plus the memory bandwidth available would probably push it a >bit over that with large hash table sizes. 8-way Opteron 2.0 would of course be >like 8 p4-3.6's (however with some 40gb/s+ memory bandwidth available depending >on bus speed). > >Why not use the best hardware? Seems like if you'd want to promote your new >'awesome' chess program you'd want to give it the best chance of winning. If you were in charge of advertising the AMD company, you probably would have offered the Fritz team as well as Mr. Kasparov a good deal of money to select a Quad 4-way Opteron running at 2GHz or more, but it seems that Intel made a better proposal knowing how much revenue it can bring their company. PS: Remember how good IBM stocks did after the 1997 match against Mr. Kasparov, it is NOT just a match, it is a well promoted Intel advertisement Show, shown all over the World by ESPN. Jorge
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