Author: Rajen Gupta
Date: 10:46:54 05/22/01
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On May 22, 2001 at 08:10:15, martin fierz wrote: >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 hi martin: sorry to have to tell you this but the pentium iv is a donkey at playing chess. this has been posted several times in this forum as well as all hardware forums acoss the web. your money would ahve been better spent on either upgrading to a dual pentium 3 (cost = a new motherboard and 1 processor)or an athlon 1.33(cost = new motherboard and i processor) rajen
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