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Subject: Re: Xeon and Fritz <<New thread!

Author: Keith Ian Price

Date: 16:41:09 04/24/98

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On April 21, 1998 at 09:21:26, fca wrote:

>On April 20, 1998 at 22:57:46, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>
>>On April 20, 1998 at 21:58:07, fca wrote:
>
>>>And lighten up folks - those pics had me rofl...
>
>>Yes, but they weren't of you.
>
>Correct.  As denied by me elsewhere, too.  I cannot stop others trolling
>about things like this... and how many times must I deny it before my
>denial becomes part of the problem?  :-)
>
>Nor would I be likely to be rofl about photos of myself that I would
>then have seen before...   :-))
>
>I am not someone who has posted here, or on rgcc, before under a
>different name. I have lurked for ages.  Please, folks, as bruce and
>mclane and others and I say - cease the pointless speculation.  It is no
>big deal.
>
>I return now to researching the Xeon Pentium II, which my search engines
>reveal is only referred to once on the net - in Intel's official site
>(yesterday's press release). That itself is significant.   This
>processor should be a shot in the arm for c.c.  It is the processor I
>have been referring to as the Deschutes Slot II in other threads.   With
>a 450NX chipset and Level 2 cache operating at 450MHz (4 times faster
>than previously typical, ignoring CPUs released in the last month) and
>up to 2Mb in size, this beast will play fast chess with the whole hash
>table in cache..
>
>The benefit will be especially felt with the "slower" programs (like
>Rebel or Genius)- beasts like Fritz fill up a hash table so fast (and
>faster now that 2Mb will be cached) that much more than 2Mb will be
>needed, even for blitz chess.
>
>Views, anyone?
>
>Kind regards
>
>fca

I've thought that it would be very good with CSTal which might not fill
the hash to 2MB for a couple minutes, even at 450Mhz. CSTal is
definitely slowest on hash table filling, and I think it is also the
program most likely to benefit from the increased speed. Perhaps Chris
can get one before the world championship this year, and then maybe I'll
find out if I should buy one or wait for Willamette. (Will-LAM-ette, for
you non-Oregonians). Bigger river, faster processor...

kp



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