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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