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Subject: XP and Chessbase Engine

Author: Derek Winter

Date: 22:24:33 01/30/03

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The implication of this is that one should be trying Fritz 8 with smaller hash
tables, e.g., if you have 800 MB available, try 196 MB, not 640 MB.


On January 28, 2003 at 16:39:17, Antonio Palma wrote:

>Is a fresh installation and actually i am working to set a dual boot machine
>(win 98 and xp) so i can have some fixed parameters (hardware).
>
>About the PC, i mentioned the Athlon 1 GHz CPU is by AMD with asus mobo and 700
>Mb Ram.
>Friends of mine tested the following hardware in win 98
>
>                   HASH      kn/s       FRITZMARK
>Pentium3 400 MHz    144MB      199             284
>AMD 700  MHz        192MB      370             514
>AMD 1400 MHz         68MB      763           1.104
>AMD 1400 MHz        163MB      740           1.040
>AMD 1400 MHz        192MB      716           1.008
>
>My preliminary results with Athlon 100 in winxp were:
>
>AMD 1000 MHz         192MB      287             400
>
>incredibly less than a 700 MHz.
>
>So I decided to use fixed hardware (mine) to chech any differences in OS.
>Appreciate any comment about these preliminary results.
>
>
>
>
>On January 28, 2003 at 07:48:40, pavel wrote:
>
>>
>>Or it could be that since you "upgraded" over previous installation over an old
>>operating system, instead of doing a "fresh" installation, is the reason.
>>
>>Fresh installation are ussually optimum installation IMO.
>>
>>By the way, you didn't mention which processor you are using, (ie, PIV),
>>comparing two differant type of computers is a mistake.
>>
>>If he is using AMD and you are using PIV, chances are his one is faster,
>>regardless of what operating system and kind of installation you did.
>>
>>
>>
>>Cheers,
>>pavs



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