Author: Slater Wold
Date: 07:41:05 09/13/01
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On September 13, 2001 at 08:37:43, Vincent Diepeveen 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 > >What's that for nonsense? > >I own both a P3 dual and a dual 1.2MP and the dual 1.2MP blows away >anything i had before. > >a) the bandwidth from DDR ram is 2 times that of sdram >b) the processor is nearly 2 times faster. I have owned a 2x1000mhz before. And I (essentially) own a single 1.4Ghz now. He was NOT talking about dual 1.4's - just a single. The bench on Crafty with 1 AMD 1.4Ghz is about 800k nps. The dual 1000mhz was 1.1M. Like I said, on SMP applications, the 2x1000mhz will be faster. Slate
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