Author: Alastair Scott
Date: 01:44:56 12/06/02
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On December 06, 2002 at 02:37:43, Jorge Pichard wrote: >Yes, that is precisely the point. The main reason for establishing the SSDF was >to give the computer fans an estimated rating based on what's the average of >what most of the computer fans use at home. Two years ago the average hardwares >used was somewhere between a K6-450 Mhz and AMD 1.0 Ghz, but nowadays a more >realistic average would be somewhere between an AMD 1.2 Ghz and an AMD XP 2600+. In my experience that is _way_ over the top. Something between a PII/500 and PIII/1GHz would be more like it and, in companies, even lower (a lot of them are still running NT4 with no real interest in changing). When people shout 'Intel PVI/14GHz best for chess' it's unclear how many listen; I suspect the purchasers of chess programs who buy new PCs solely because those programs might run faster is a small proportion of the whole. Dunno about anyone else, but there are better things to spend money on than doubtfully improved hardware :) Alastair
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