Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:48:42 12/19/02
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On December 19, 2002 at 05:00:05, Matt Taylor wrote: >On December 19, 2002 at 02:57:11, Brandon wrote: > >>AMD chips are generally better (mhz per mhz) for chess than Intel chips. I use a >>dual xeon 2.2 ghz for chess on ICC and I get some pretty crazy nps (I use chess >>programs that use multiple cpus). Generally speaking, if the machine is going to >>play chess only and is going to be a single cpu system, I'd stick with AMD.. >>best bang for the buck in this case. However, if you are going to be doing video >>editing or using "graphic intensive programs", Intel generally is better. If you >>want to have a multiple cpu system (like a dual cpu system), I would stick with >>Intel, as they have been in the multiple cpu business for many years while AMD >>is pretty recent in this area (~1.5 years experience, at the most). I have heard >>reports of inefficiencies and problems with dual amd configurations, so research >>it out carefully. www.tomshardware.com is a good place to start... good luck. >> >> - Brandon S. >> >>P.S. - Programs like Crafty have been compiled by several different sources to >>provide optimizations for the P4 and the AMD, so that muddies up the whole issue >>of "which cpu is faster with chess progs" and what not.. > >Tom's Hardware posts a lot of crap. Half the articles are poor attempts to cover >up lack of knowledge. When they do make an error, instead of fixing the problem, >they try to explain to you why it's not an error. > >I own an AthlonMP system at home and have one on my desk at work. I haven't seen >any inefficiencies; they do lack the quad-pumping stuff Intel does. So does the >P3 Xeon. > >Overall quite happy with my system. It doesn't perform as well as high-end P4 >Xeon systems, but it's hard to beat with a pricetag of $1,100 and comparable >hardware minus SCSI. > >-Matt My only comment is that I will _never_ own another IDE-based system. too slow. Hogs the bus. Devices are slow. My 2.8 is using ultra-320 scsi with 15K drives and it can eat EGTBs like a gorilla eats bananas... SCSI is also a nice way to offload queueing issues as well. Let the controller decide which read/write to do next... Since an operating system really can't uderstand variable device geometry anyway...
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