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Subject: Re: What's the latest Athlon for Chess?

Author: Bob Durrett

Date: 16:33:32 12/20/02

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On December 20, 2002 at 18:45:12, Aaron Gordon wrote:

>AthlonXP 2800+ (2.25GHz) is the latest. The 2.52GHz XP in the Crafty benchmark
>list was an overclocked 2600+ (2.13ghz).

Oh!  That's just wonderful!!!! That means that the Crafty v18.11 Benchmark data
is inflated!  You just can't believe anything nowadays.  The hash table sizes
were probably unrealistically small too, to further inflate the data.

I am beginning to think I should throw that graph in the trashcan.

: (

Bob D.


>You can get the Asus A7N8X Nforce2
>board with 2800+ CPU at www.newegg.com. It's going to be very expensive though..
>Not nearly as expensive as a P4-3.06ghz however ($660 just for the cpu) :)



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