Author: Victor Zakharov
Date: 09:34:45 03/27/01
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I am not agree with the main idea. The only thing that I could agree is that 70% processor speedup doesn't bring a lot of ELO points. 1) Two processors give 70% speed increase for chess program. Ok. But doubling processor speed doesn't speed up computer 2 times too. I suspect that speedup is about 70% for most programs too. Memory system speed limits speedup. May be some people here have benchmarks under their hands and can say more exact number. But I am sure that speedup is strongly less than 100% 2) So the queston is only what is cheaper to buy the processor that is two times faster or to buy a second processor. For my mind two processors are cheaper. Sure you should have the adequite motherboard. The only problem is that not all the programs support 2 processors. But there is another side of the medal. If you run some process on the 1 processor computer it uses most processors resources and it is not easy to do something else. With two processors you have no this problem. So personaly I am using two processor board with great pleasure.
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