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Subject: Re: 8 x 900 MHz - sounds a bit dated!

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 13:28:48 10/02/02

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On October 02, 2002 at 07:12:38, George Sobala wrote:

>On October 02, 2002 at 05:00:41, T. Opas wrote:
>
>>It is Deep Fritz 7, but the version is unclear, because there is an agreement,
>>that Kramnik got the same version as used in the match three month before the
>>match, means latest on the 4th of july. But the official release of DF7 for
>>public was about the 15th of august!
>>Hardware should be 8 x 900 MHz Compaq wizh 4 GB RAM.
>>
>>Best,
>> Torsten
>
>So - 8x900MHz? Given the problems of non-linearity between number of processors
>and "real" speedup, wouldn't a spanking new dual 2.4 or 2.8GHz P4 be as fast (or
>even faster)?

A dual 2.8 Xeon is going to be way faster of course. I'm not sure you can
buy a 2.8Ghz Xeon in the shop yet though.



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