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Subject: Re: Aaron, I hope you're ready. ;)

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 01:47:23 05/26/02

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On May 26, 2002 at 02:37:33, Gregor Overney wrote:

>I might have missed a couple of your posts recently. So here comes my naive
>question.
>
>Do you plan to use it exclusively for computer chess? If yes, did you realize
>that this version of P4 runs Crafty around 16% slower than an Athlon 2100+ (see
>http://www.spec.org and look for SpecInt 2000's Crafty test)? If not, enjoy your
>P4. I have a P4 2.2 GHz in my office for SW development. Works fine. At home, I
>still use my Athlon 1.4GHz. The P4 2.2 GHz is barely faster than the old Athlon
>1.4 when running Crafty. - Well, it is obviously net yet commonly known that the
>Athlon are better CPUs to run Chess programs than the Pentium CPUs. - I thought,
>it might.
>
>Gregor

You missed some posts.  ;)

I already own a Dual AMD 2100+. 1GB memory, and all the trimmings.  And it is
*very* fast.

But I was sick of the Intel bashing, so I wanted an all around test to see which
is better.

So I bought another system......



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