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Subject: Re: Why is P4-1.5GHz only 35% faster than P3-700Mz?

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 10:09:26 10/17/01

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On October 17, 2001 at 12:32:29, Jeff Lischer wrote:

>On October 17, 2001 at 04:04:35, Aaron Gordon wrote:
>
>>AMD (Athlon, Thunderbird, Duron, etc) optimized Crafty v18.12 available here at
>>http://65.10.79.9/crafty/index.html .
>>
>>For those with Pentium 2's or 3's, Celeron's, Pentium 4's, etc it should run
>>fine so don't worry.
>
>In your benchmark section, the P3-700 has 420,004 NPS while the P4-1.5GHz has
>569,185 NPS. This is only 35% faster for a processor that I thought would be at
>least 2X faster. Is this true? Or am I missing something? Thanks.

It is true.  The P4's suck for chess.



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