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Subject: Re: Good luck

Author: Charles Worthington

Date: 20:44:18 02/18/03

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On February 18, 2003 at 23:39:18, Aaron Gordon wrote:

>Hyatts box benchmarks a little over 2 million nodes/sec in the crafty benchmark.
>Hyatt, I know you say you get 2.5 million but in all the games you've played
>online where you've kibbed your nodes/sec you've ALWAYS been just over 2 million
>(2050-2150kn/s most of the time). Also, about a dual P4-3.06 + HT getting 3
>million nodes/sec. Not going to happen (Possible in the endgame with almost no
>pieces). My AthlonXP 2100+ overclocked to 2.44GHz gets a little over 1.5 million
>nodes/sec in crafty and I've seen over 2 million in end-games. Enricos 2400+ @
>2.52GHz gets almost 1.6 million in crafty.
>
>There are *NO* P4 chips available that can match this, including a P4-3.06 Xeon
>+ HT. Those get around 1.3 million WITH HT in crafty. If you do a 1.3 million *
>1.8 you come out to 2.34 million nodes/sec. Far cry from 3 million nodes/sec.
>
>How much did MY box cost? $97 for the chip, $80 for the board. $75 for the ram,
>etc. Not much at all.


Once again you are trying to compare overclocked Athlons to factory xeons and
still not accounting for the hyperthreading multiple of 1.33. Lets overclock the
Xeon too if you want a fair test. And also people can we please stop  pretending
that the hyperthreading multiple does not exist?



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