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Subject: Re: How Much gain from increasing my bus speed?

Author: Kris Jordan

Date: 11:13:36 03/30/02

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Joshua,
Bus speed plays a big role in performance. You will see a larger increase in NPS
with a higher bus speed than just an increase in cpu speed. For example, 150mhz
fsb x 12 (cpu multiplier)=1800mhz and 144fsb x 12.5 (cpu multiplier) also equals
1800mhz. Even though both are 1800mhz, the 150fsb configuration will outperform
the other by roughly 50 nps. (Cas 2 is a big plus also)
Good luck,
KJ

On March 30, 2002 at 13:07:23, Joshua Lee wrote:

>I have an Athlon Thunderbird at 1Ghz with it's 200Mhz bus and i am using CAS 2
>PC-133. Has anyone noted the increase in performance for chess programs going
>from PC-133 to DDR? How Much would going from PC-133 to PC-1600 be?(1Ghz on a
>DDR Bus) What about PC-133 to PC-2100? 1Ghz on a 266Mhz Bus)
>PC2400 (300Mhz Bus) PC2700 (333Mhz Bus)?
>
>Is it possible to estimate how many NPS this is worth? Normally people are most
>concerned with the ClockSpeed while there really aren't many tests for Chess
>Programs that say which CPU is better let alone how much difference the Bus
>Speed makes.



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