Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 20:33:38 03/19/01
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Dual system is a good compromise. You can buy a 800MHz dual PIII system roughly for a price of 1GHz one (also PIII), and it'll be more "reactive" (i.e. you'll be able to do something on it running some CPU-intensive application). Eugene On March 19, 2001 at 19:27:24, Bruce Moreland wrote: >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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