Author: Yen Art Tham
Date: 10:35:40 01/25/03
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On January 25, 2003 at 11:10:05, Aaron Gordon wrote: >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? > >Absolutely (that is my FICS account, by the way). I personally tested MANY >different computer systems with optimized Crafty binaries. Incase you're >wondering the speed difference follows over to other chess programs as well. >Such as a Celeron-1GHz being faster than a P4-1.5GHz in Crafty and, say, Deep >Junior. Here is a graph of my results from the testing I've done: > >http://speedycpu.dyndns.org/crafty/craftybench4.jpg > >Each CPU used a binary optimized specifically for that CPU. An AthlonXP had a >partially AthlonXP optimized Crafty binary (Matt Taylor is working on even >better optimizations). Pentium4 used a binary optimized Pentium 4's. Pentium 3's >used P3 binaries, etc. > >I made a large effort to make the fastest binaries and to produce the fastest >results possible out of all of the machines. So far I think the Pentium 4 is a >waste. It's slower, runs hotter and is much more expensive. Why bother? > >For those of you that say AMD is unstable I highly recommend you using something >other than a $50 motherboard or a cheapo stick of ram. It's not AMD's fault if >the board/ram/etc is of poor quality. Don't blame them. I've been using AMD cpus >since the 486 days and have NEVER had any stability problems when the chip was >coupled with quality components. I have a suggestion: why don't you post a "performance index" on your site, let's say give Athlon 1.2gHz (SSDF-cpu) an PI of 1 with all the other cpus referenced to it. yat
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