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Subject: Re: What's the best tool for PC benchmarking for chess purposes?

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 17:42:02 12/08/02

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On December 08, 2002 at 16:20:09, Edward Seid wrote:

>What's the best tool and/or test for PC benchmarking for the purpose of
>comparing PC speeds for chess?
>
>If a tool offers two math benchmarks, one for integer math and another for
>floating point math, which is more relevant to chess?
>
>Sandra 2003 has a CPU arithmetic test which reports Dhrystone ALU benchmark in
>MIPS and Whetstone FPU in MFLOPS.  However, Sandra 2003 is a complete suite of
>benchmarking tools.  It would be nice to have a small-sized, single-purpose
>utility that would give an accurate benchmark for chess purposes.
>
>If we can all agree on a particular tool, it would be interested if people on
>CCC could report their hardware config along with their benchmark tests.
>
>Comments and suggestions are welcomed.

First - sorry for the blank post - that was in advertant mouse click.

Of all the non-chess benchmarks, the integer benchmark is the most closely
correlated to chess.  That is because most chess programs are integer intensive
processing.  When I buy a system, I just look at the integer bench marks - I
could care less about the others.

Mike



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