Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 11:32:18 03/08/03
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On March 07, 2003 at 06:30:27, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>On March 06, 2003 at 23:11:11, Mike Byrne wrote:
>
>>On March 06, 2003 at 16:56:21, Russell Reagan wrote:
>>
>>>Jorge Pichard says that on his ipaq, which runs at 500 MHz (overclocked), Pocket
>>>Fritz 2 gets around 70k-90k nps. On my Toshiba e740 (400MHz, not overclocked), I
>>>only get around 3k-4k nps.
>>>
>>>I installed Pocket Fritz 2 manually, copying the .cab file for the ARM processor
>>>to my Pocket PC and installing it from there. I read somewhere that some PDA's
>>>have "emulator" mode to support some software for other processors. Is it
>>>possible that I installed the wrong .cab file and it is running in emulator
>>>mode? Any other suggestions or ideas?
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Russell
>>
>>
>>I don't have Fritz 2 and I onoy have a 206MHz arm - but with Fritz 1 I get
>>about 5K NPS. I would think that you should get about 9K. What I don't
>>understand in the 90K NPS? I wonder if the overclock application has distorted
>>the internal timings.
>>
>
>You are correct I just uninstalled the overclock on my HP Ipaq and run the same
>tests again and found to my amazement now that my Ipaq only get 7K instead of
>the previous 70K with tactical position and only 6K with normal non tactical
>position whereas it used to report 50K. You are correct to asume that the
>overclocking distorted the internal timings. This low NPS with Pocket Fritz2
>indicate that Pocket Fritz2 has much more knowledge than Pocket Fritz1
This last statement is pure nonsense.
Christophe
>
>Pichard
>
>
>
>>The way to test this is to set it on a position - search x depth deep, manually
>>time the machines and then compare the two results. The next generation Pocket
>>PC was not going to be 20x faster than the previous. Something sounds _wrong_.
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