Author: J. Wesley Cleveland
Date: 14:20:28 01/15/02
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On January 15, 2002 at 16:31:44, John Hatcher wrote: >I just installed a new video card and, quite unexpectedly, I found that all my >chess engines (using the Fritz interface) are reporting significantly higher >knps during analysis - in the range of 50% faster knps. > >The video upgrade was a modest one - from onboard INTEL AGP (8mb shared) to a >ATI Xpert 128 (16mb). The computer is a 333mhz Celeron with 294MB memory. > >Does this make any sense? How does upgrading video increase knps of a chess >engine? Does it? > I would guess you were having severe memory contention between the cpu and the video card.
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