Author: Keith Ian Price
Date: 09:53:12 05/06/02
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On May 06, 2002 at 11:05:38, Rajen Gupta wrote: >On May 06, 2002 at 10:45:21, Dan Andersson wrote: > >>Good for them. But with the current speed of Athlon XP we will have to see a >>2.9GHz P4 before even considering a switch for chess programs and FEA. >> >>MvH Dan Andersson > >i doubt it. someone here had posted the tiger and fritz mark on a pentium 4 >northwood, about 10 days back(i forget the name of the poster, perhaps if he >reads this he can respond)and it was identical to the benchmarks which others >had posted of an athlon xp at 1600MHZ. This means that a pentium4 2.4 would >atleast run as fast as athlon xp 1.73(the fastest currently available) and a >pentium 2.53 would woud run somewhere between an athlonxp 1.83-1.87 9probably >the latter in view of a faster FSB, faster memory and the superior scaling of a >P4 at higher speeds as compared to an athlon xp. > >I greatly fear that amd have taken their eye of the ball and will forever be >playing catchup, one lap behind > >rajen That was me. My 2.2 Ghz P4 is also used for rendering video, a task at which it blows the doors off any AMD processor so far, which is why I got it, rather than an AMD. The 2 ELO increase I could expect from the AMD 2100+ system over mine wasn't enough of an incentive to render video at 75% of the speed. That and the fact that a similarly equipped AMD system from HP or Compaq would have cost 50% more. 60% if I tried to put one together myself at the time. Gateway is giving away their high-end models to try and raise market share, so I was happy to help. kp
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