Author: Peter Berger
Date: 01:18:26 08/24/01
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On August 23, 2001 at 17:53:13, Torstein Hall wrote: >Is really a dual PIII 1000 really that much better than a single Athlon 1.4 Mhz? > >My simple, and probably not correct math goes as follows: 1000mhz x2 = 2000mhz >Then subtract 25% due to search overhead, etc. etc. ? And the Athlon CPU is >faster at integer math? Makes the hardware seems more or less equal to me. >Or am I wrong? Or did someone show up with dual Athlons? > >Torstein I'd go with your maths here. If the information at http://www.vrichey.de/ccc2001/index.html is correct only two programs had serious hardware advantage : Crafty and Ferret on Dual Athlons. Especially Crafty's computer with 2x Athlon 1400 must be something brand new .. - it's probably not much worse than Bob Hyatt's Quad. And - some amateurs had a serious disadvantage: look at Tao for example.
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