Author: Aaron Gordon
Date: 20:20:01 12/20/02
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On December 20, 2002 at 19:33:32, Bob Durrett wrote: >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) :) Inflated? It's called overclocking. Also, if you bothered to do the math you'd see the AMD cpus are faster by far. With or without overclocking. Crafty gets an almost linear speedup. All you have to do is the math. Overclocking doesn't "inflate" anything. It's not going to be magically faster MHz for MHz. If you had a true 3.25GHz P4 and an overclocked P4-3.25GHz they'll be the same speed. If you can't overclock then thats your decision/problem. I leave it up to you to figure out which is going to be faster at the speed you choose. I'm not going to do any "hand-holding" as far as the results go. You went to school, you figure it out.
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