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Subject: Coparing two Identical Programs using Different Processors Speed !

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 11:33:23 01/28/01


Six Weeks ago I matched Nimzo 8 Vs Junior 6 at G\60 using an AMD Athlon 800 MHz
And the score after 75 games ended up with a slight advantage of 6.5 points for
Nimzo 8. Then one week after that match, I decided to match the same two
programs, but I used an AMD K6-2 500 MHz instead, and the score after 75 games
ended this time in favor of Junior 6 by almost the same margin as the previous
match. I realized that certain program benefit more than others as the speed of
the processor increases, but I wasn't satified yet and decided to test the same
two programs one more time with a slower processor this time. I asked my friend
John to test these two programs again with his old Pentium Celeron 333 MHz at
G\60 and after 9 games, Junior 6 was beating Nimzo 8 by W7 D2 L0 and, at that
moment I decided to stop the match. I can only conclude that Nimzo 8 benefit
more as the speed of the processor increase, therefore, Nimzo 8 will not have a
great SSDF rating by the middle of February, but if you have a P.C. with a
processors higher than 800 MHz Nimzo 8 is one of the few programs that benefit
the most by using the latest technology available.

Pichard.



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