Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:07:16 01/24/03
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On January 24, 2003 at 20:14:45, Jason Kasick wrote: >Found this in a finger note of the best computer on FICS. > >Anyone that uses a P4 for chess is crazy. A celeron 1GHz beats a P4-1.5GHz >\ at chess, AthlonXP 2000+ is equal with a P4-2.8GHz and an AthlonXP 2200+ >\ is faster than even a P4-3GHz. It would take a P4-3.9GHz to equal an >\ AthlonXP 2400+ running at 2.5GHz. > > >Any validity to this? I tend to say "no". PIV + rdram is not great for chess, for sure. But the PIV machines with ddr ram seem to be doing just fine. I have a PIV xeon box and I don't see it doing poorly in terms of raw speed.
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