Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 09:41:28 05/08/02
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On May 08, 2002 at 12:05:30, Christophe Theron wrote: >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 motherboard BIOS and set most speed aggressive settings for Pentium-IV >>system. Difference 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 That is about right, I came to the same conclusion long time ago, when I was getting my Athlon 1.2 Ghz, I tested Tiger on a 1.6 Ghz and then noticed that the Athlon 1.2 Ghz was just a little bit faster. Pichard.
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