Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 15:24:44 12/31/02
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On December 31, 2002 at 17:22:42, Rick Terry wrote: >A friend of mine who works at USA Computers seems convinced that The Pentium 4 >512 FSB outperforms the Athlon in Every Bench Mark. I didn't know enough to >argue with him, repeating only what I heard here about AMD Processors being >Superior to the Pentium in Running Chess Programs, But Why?, Why would the >Pentium Perform better then the Athlon in all other Benchmarks but Chess? The issue may no longer be important. We seem to be on the verge of an industry-wide switch to 64-bit computers. Maybe a year or so, but soon. Presumably, all of the top chess engines will convert over to 64-bit. The high-end is also going multi-processor. The hyperthreading is also clouding the issue. Soon, such "pseudo-dual" processors will be common. All the chess engines will have to run on them too. All the comparisons of the 32-bit "ordinary" computers and software for them may become obsolete. Just as it was for 16-bit. Bob D.
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