Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 16:27:24 03/19/01
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On March 19, 2001 at 16:39:16, Jonas Cohonas wrote: >Does anyone have any insight/experience with either Dual or Quad xeon cpu's? >What would be the price of a motherboard that can run a Quad 1ghz xeon? >And what is the price of a dual xeon 1 ghz solution? > >Would a dual xeon 1 ghz be better/faster than a dual T-Bird 1.2 ghz? >Any insight would be appreciated since i am thinking of going Dual/Qaud with >either the xeon or with the upcoming release of the T-bird dual solution. > >The above is ofcause ralated to the performance with chess programs and what >solutions would be best for cpu chess, i apologize for being slightly off topic, >but where else can one get such insight in both the raw cpu performance and >chessprogram performance. > >Tanks in advance >Jonas I bought a quad Xeon because I wanted to learn how to program for multiple processors, and I was willing to try to do it in a big way. They are ridiculously expensive, or at least they were then. If I had to do it over again I'd do the same thing, but if we're talking someone in their house wanting to play against a strong computer program, I'd skip the multiprocessor thing now and just buy a single-processor machine. Very little stuff runs effectively on multiple processors anyway, and a single-processor machine is a lot less painful to take to the dump in a few years. bruce
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