Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 09:05:30 05/08/02
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On May 08, 2002 at 07:10:09, Victor Zakharov wrote:
>
>I just compared Athlon XP1700+ and expensive Pentium-IV 1800 with a lot of RDRAM
>memory. I was shocked when found that Tiger was 40%! faster on Athlon system. I
>went to motherbored BIOS and set most speed aggressive settings for Pentium-IV
>system. Dufference became 30%.
>
>So for Tiger you should have Pentium-IV 2,4GHz system to have the same speed as
>Athlon XP 1700+. The difference can be less for another programs. But I have no
>doubt more that AMD based systems are much better for chess.
>
>Victor
Yes. On my brand new Toshiba notebook powered by a 1.6GHz Pentium 4, Chess Tiger
is as fast as on a 1.1GHz Athlon.
Generally, take the speed in MHz of the P4 and divide it by 1.45 to get the
speed in MHz an Athlon would need to have the same processing power.
Christophe
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