Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 05:47:09 09/13/01
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On September 12, 2001 at 20:48:51, ERIQ wrote: >On September 12, 2001 at 20:27:02, Slater Wold wrote: > >>On September 12, 2001 at 19:54:28, ERIQ wrote: >> >>>On September 12, 2001 at 19:49:32, Slater Wold wrote: >>> >>>>On September 12, 2001 at 19:27:18, ERIQ wrote: >>>> >>>>>I generally run linux so would love to have dual system but am not sure which >>>>>would run crafty faster the single athlon or dual pIII's. but I am sure they are >>>>>both faster than what I have now a 433 cel. :( >>>>> >>>>>(must upgrade fast) >>>>> >>>>>Let me also say that I would like something under $2,000 us. and would not mind >>>>>building it myself. >>>>> >>>>>I would be using it for general stuff, trying to write programs in C,C++, and of >>>>>course chess mostly my database programs and playing programs Yace,CT,Crafty >>>>>etc. >>>>> >>>>>main reason for upgrade is any time you are compiling something and try to do >>>>>something else, it gets sooooo slooooow. >>>>> >>>>> sign, >>>>> Eriq >>>> >>>>I have owned BOTH machines, and the 2x1000mhz will be faster. (On SMP >>>>applications.) >>>> >>>> >>>>Slate >>> >>>hi, I have followed your post on the new amd smp mashine. is it also a viable >>>option for me or is it not worth the trouble or money. IE price per proformance. >> >>Depends. Computer prices have rose a little bit since I've bought mine, and >>with just a quick check, I can tell you it'll be about 5% more. The difference >>would be the AMD being about $200 more. > >now what proformance wise could I get for my $200 buck let's say running crafty Crafty at a dual amd 1.4Ghz gets somewhere near 1.5 million nodes a second. That's way more than a quad xeon 700 gives for Bob. But the price of that dual AMD is of course a couple of thousands more than a dual P3. > (Depending on what you wanted, that's >>just for the bare bone system.) Not sure where you live, but I know air service >>is shutdown, and when it starts, will be very slow. So you might want to find >>whatever you can locally. Especially if you're in a hurry. > >wow I have already forgot about that attack but not in that big of hurry anyway > >> >> >>> >>>also which motherboard suports 1000mhz pIII I have found only up too 933mhz. >>>Also which is faster amd smp or intel pIIIs or better. >> >>The Abit VP6 was the mobo I used. It was pretty nice. > >I have heard good things about this board most people like mobo's like that because of overclock possibilities and it is very cheap, but for computerchess it's not so impressive because the slow chipsets hurt bigtime for several programs. >> >> >>Slate >ok one last ? of the systems you have used which do you like the best for all >around proformance.
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