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Subject: Re: Some thoughts for those who are considering to buy a Dual processor PC

Author: Joshua Lee

Date: 06:43:16 03/29/01

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>
>SSDF figures are _perfectly_ accurate.  But only to predict outcomes between
>the players on the SSDF list.  They have _nothing_ to do with the human Elo
>rating system as provided by FIDE.  Other than they are computed using the
>same formula.  But to compare a 2600 SSDF rating to a 2600 FIDE rating is
>simply comparing apples and oranges.


Your first sentence hit the nail on the head, and My statements back it up to
boot there is no clean adding or subtracting to compare any of the Server
ratings with those programs on the slower hardware on the SSDF list I tried this
and it doesn't work and the reason being exactly what you stated in your second
sentence. But i guess the question still is what figures are going to remain
constant for doubling or tripling hardware in matches against humans and is a
dual going to be the 1.7x faster it's supposed to be?

Well i do know one thing there is no formula that anyone can come up with that
will prove to me that a dual 2Ghz machine isn't faster than a single 2ghz
machine. Now if people mean to compare something like a Dual 1Ghz with a single
1.7Gz then there's a comparison to make then you've got to figure is the Dual
going to be a xeon or a regular P3 and what about the 1.7 will the p4 at equal
clock speed be it's equal the answer for that is no the P4 is the only cpu that
comes close to an 833Mhz DEC Alpha.   My point there are way too many variables
and unless everybody used product x the results should always be different.

this probably explains some match results.


thankyou
If Christope



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