Author: Aaron Gordon
Date: 01:47:06 12/18/01
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Where can I get this Tic-tac-toe program? I'd like to test my speed with it. Using 1Ghz tbird @ 1.62GHz at the moment, today an AthlonXP 1900+(1.6ghz) is coming.. Hopefully with a voltage mod & liquid cooling I can get it up near 2ghz :) Also, when you say 1.6GHz Athlon did you mean the 1600+(1.4ghz) or the 1900+ @ a true 1.6ghz? >On December 17, 2001 at 14:16:50, David Hanley wrote: > >>Seems like i'm seeing pentiums and athlons pretty similarly priced. I tend to >>like the athlon, just to help out the "little guy" but that is the experience of >>you guys with these chips and your chess programs? >> >No, not EVEN! Athlons of comparable speed for chess programs are hundreds of >dollars less than Pentiums. The pentium 2 Giggers can NOT keep up with the >Athlon's. > >As a test, I took a crazy tic-tac-toe program which uses minimax (no alpha beta >of any kind) to calculate it's best move, put it on a floppy and hit several >local computer stores and tried it out. > >The tic-tac-toe program has to look at millions of positions before it makes >it's first move (this is not a typical tic-tac-toe board, it is larger (4 x 4)) > >Anyway, test times were: > > Athlon 1.6GHz 569 seconds > Pentium 2GHz 634 seconds > >And, the Athlon was several hundreds cheaper, too. Guess which I purchased? >:-)) > >David
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