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Subject: Re: To Aaron Gordon

Author: Matt Taylor

Date: 23:56:09 02/18/03

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On February 18, 2003 at 08:25:38, Charles Worthington wrote:

>Perhaps you right Aaron but the Crafty Benchmark figures you have shown are with
>Pentium 4 Processors and not Xeon. These figures do no seem to take
>Hyper-Threading into account nor advances in the Speed of RAM and chipsets. Also
>I would think that Deep Fritz 7 would be able to utilize the hyper-threading
>more efficiently than Crafty at this point. Of course, I have no ideal how fast
>the system will be until I get it installed. But I can assure you that If I am
>unhappy with it's performance it will be sent back. Overclocking is not an
>option for me even if I were to opt for an AMD system. If overclocking were my
>plan, however, I would most certainly stick to the far more stable Xeon. But I
>sort of feel like If a processor can't hold it's own without overclocking then I
>dont need it.

Far more stable? On what do you base that assertion?

IIRC some of the CPUs listed on Aaron's page use HT.

-Matt



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