Author: Bernhard Bauer
Date: 04:43:04 04/24/98
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On April 24, 1998 at 07:28:29, Kevin Mulloy wrote:
>Gentlmen,
> This is my first trip to this site -- and I like what I've read so
>far! I have a question that one of you might be able to answer for me.
>I have the chance to purchase a dual 333 P2 for a very good price. My
>question is,
"Would two 333 P2's give a strength advantage over a single
processor if I were running one of the top programs on it?"
Yes, if you take Crafty. Crafty is 32-bit program which allready
runs on several processors (LINUX) and will soon (version 15.4)
run in parallel on WINNT.
I have most of the new programs that are available
(my personal favorites are Hiarcs6! and Genius 5 -- followed by
MCP7 and Fritz 5).
I assume your programs are mostly 16-bit and not suited to run on
several processors.
>I'm not very
>well versed on just how a dual processor set up works. If the resulting
>performance gains would be noticible (even 50 elo points would be an
>amazing gain -- in my opinion) I would be willing to "spring" for the
>extra processor and run some test. Does anyone have an opinion on this
>one? If the extra processor will or will not make a difference, what
>are the reasons? In advance, thanks for the input and help guys!
> Trapper
> trapper@netnitco.net
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