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Subject: Re: A challenge! (CPU vs CPU)

Author: Ed Panek

Date: 11:46:00 05/07/02

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On May 07, 2002 at 12:22:55, Aaron Gordon wrote:

>On May 07, 2002 at 11:39:09, Slater Wold wrote:
>
>>On May 07, 2002 at 11:07:52, Jeremiah Penery wrote:
>>
>>>On May 07, 2002 at 10:46:19, Slater Wold wrote:
>>>
>>>>On May 07, 2002 at 01:05:54, Jeremiah Penery wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>This challenge is really rather silly, for several reasons.  The machines being
>>>>>compared aren't identical (ignoring the obvious CPU/motherboard difference),
>>>>>it's not being done in any kind of controlled setting, and there's no guarantee
>>>>>that the programs/settings being used are exactly identical.  Despite this, I'm
>>>>>interested to see what results you come up with.
>>>>
>>>>It's not silly at all.  We are comparing one CPU makers "flagship" to another.
>>>
>>>If all the other hardware is identical, I'll buy it.  But I doubt you and Aaron
>>>have identical components in your machines.
>>>
>>>>The software will be EXACTLY the same.  I guarantee that.
>>>
>>>If you were testing both machines yourself, yes.  But if it's you vs. Aaron,
>>>there are bound to be some differences in the software (and hardware), which
>>>make the results not 100% reliable.
>>>
>>>Interested to see the results anyway.
>>
>>
>>Well I have a *true* AMD 1.73Ghz.  Aaron does not.
>>
>>Aaron lives about 2 hours from me.  We've always talked about getting together
>>sometime, maybe this is the perfect oppurtunity.  ;)
>
>I'm set :) Just let me know when you want to do this and I'll get a table setup.
>If you can bring that Quadro4 then we could use that for the tests instead of my
>GF3. If you can try to bring that 1.73 XP, perhaps it can get pushed a bit
>higher than my 1.60. Either way I'm looking forward to it :) Should be a blast..
>If you have any extra P4 chips to throw in there that'd be nice as well, that
>way we have some variety. I have a Tbird 1.5Ghz box here (SDR) so we could get
>four results. Email me for the details.


  I recommend testing with chess engines as well. NPS for identical setup would
be neat



Ed



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