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Subject: Re: Athylon 800 vs top program playing style

Author: Bertil Eklund

Date: 23:08:41 04/03/00

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On April 04, 2000 at 01:28:15, Jeremiah Penery wrote:

>On April 03, 2000 at 22:20:09, Wayne Lowrance wrote:
>
>>I have heard that certain programs seem stronger/weaker verses Pentium and
>>Athylon cpu's. It would be interesting (to me at least) hearing opinions on the
>>relative merrits of the following programs verses cpu type. Based on slower
>>clock speed knowledge of two competitors draw your conclusions as to how that
>>translates to 1 gig devices ( Pentium III's arent being delivered to my
>>knowledge).
>>
>>1 Crafty
>>2 Junior6
>>3 Fritz6
>>4 Chess Tiger12
>>
>>I seem to recall that Dr. Bob has said the Pentium is more suitable for Crafty.
>>If true I wonder how important relative to crafty's playing strength.
>>
>>It would be very nice if I could hear from the programmer of each but all inputs
>>are appreciated, after all end users experience is a important too.
>
>I know for Crafty, the PII/PIII is substantially faster than the equivalently
>clocked K62/K63/Athlon.  A K62-450 is only something like 10% faster than a
>PII-300 (IIRC.  It's probably a little more than that...) for Crafty.
>
>Many programs prefer the AMD chips, however.  Rebel and CS-Tal I know prefer the
>AMD chips quite a bit over the Intel ones.  For CS-Tal, at least, part of this
>is due to the large and fast L2 cache.

Hi!

Yes you are right, for Crafty an AMD450 K6-2 is about equal with a P2-333.
Most programs I know seems to be equal or better on Athlons P3 (clockwise.
I haven't heard that Crafty dislikes Athlon. Where have you seen that.

Bertil




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