Author: martin fierz
Date: 05:10:15 05/22/01
hi, i just got myself a PIV CPU at 1.4GHz and i'm slightly surprised that my checkers program isnt running any faster on it than on a PIII 866 (that's right - NO faster, not even 5%). my guess is that the CPU is sitting around waiting for data. up to now, from Pentium 150 to to PIII 450 to K7 600 to PIII866 my nodes/sec scaled pretty well with MHz, just with this new CPU not anymore. the computer has a 100MHz bus architecture, so it's not very fast there, although it has fast 400MHz RAM. has anyone else observed such a thing with a fast PIV? is it possible that this is the bottleneck for my program? is there one component in today's computers which is generally the bottleneck? is there a way for me to make an estimate by looking at my code if this could be the problem? cheers martin
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.