Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto
Date: 09:44:07 12/30/01
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On December 30, 2001 at 12:35:29, Brian Katz wrote: > I have recently asked many questions regarding Pent 4 2.0 Gig vs the Athlon >1900+, and have received many replies. Thank you. It is greatly appreciated! > The general consensus is that the Athlon 1900+ outperforms the Pentium 4 2.0 >Gig by far when run with most chess programs. > I was just speaking to a technician at a local PC store about this issue. >His view is that all the tests between the Athlons and the Pentium, where the >Athlons were scoring better, were with the Peniums using only SDRAM instead of >models using the faster RDRAM. He insisted that the bottleneck caused by using >the SDRAM was one of the reasons. He also stated that with RDRAM where you can >have BUS Speeds of 400-600 ( Athlon only 266) should allow the Pentium 4 to blow >the Athlon away. Sorry, but he understands nothing about computer chess. RDRAM improves only memory bandwidth over SDRAM, and even has higher latency. For computer chess, which is generally not very memory critical in the first place, latency is all that matters. -- GCP
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