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Subject: Re: Pentium 4 vs Rev "B" AMD XP's (Fritz 8 mark benchmark comparison)

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 14:10:57 01/03/03

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On January 03, 2003 at 16:50:16, John Rice wrote:

>My earlier post didn't draw much interest, so I'll try this again.
>The new Rev "B" AMD XP's seem to have much more overclocking headroom than
>before. Many AMD XP users are reaching 2400Mhz (3000+ model rating) and higher
>with the lastest core steppings. Until now, the Pentium 4 northwoods at 2.53Ghz
>and higher seem to have taken the chess performance crown from AMD.
>To see if this is still true, I would like all Pentium 4 users, 2.53Ghz and
>higher, and all AMD XP users 2.3Ghz and higher to post their Fritz 8 marks for
>comparison. I'll go first:
>
>
>AMD XP 2400+, overclocked to 2412Mhz (3025+ model rating) with 64MB Hashtable
>setting:
>   - Fritz Mark 1571 (5.2s)
>   - Nodes 1208kN/s


You are going to be hard to beat, just give me a couple of months, that is if I
decide to upgrade again, right now I'm considering the Cost versus the benefit
in Elo gain; and it doesn't look too promising :)

Pichard.



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