Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 21:30:26 04/07/03
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On April 07, 2003 at 18:15:43, Charles Worthington wrote: >On April 07, 2003 at 18:04:41, Anthony Cozzie wrote: > >>I have two friends who use Xeons as keychains. >> >>I have no friends that use AMD athlons as keychains. >> >>Draw your own conclusions. >> >>anthony > >so why are all of the top machines on the chessbase server xeons? i hear much >talk but i see no action from any of you. come to the chessbase server with the >fritz 8 gui and show me the speed....play me a 10 game match better still. then >we can come here and post every game and see what the excuse is then. of course >no one wants to do that eh? :-) Draw a conclusion from that now. tested at same position: Diep dual K7 @ 2.0xGhz : 200k nps Diep dual Xeon 2.8Ghz 4 processes : 190k nps Diep single cpu P4 3.06Ghz : 95k nps Diep 1 cpu 3.06Ghz P4 dual proces : 110k nps The old tests of the P3.06ghz were done by some 'testers' who are good in overclocking. the thing didn't run at 3.06Ghz at the time but more like 3.2Ghz or so with a faster memory bus or something. Then the P3.2Ghz came to like 120k nps for me when run dual processing. dual K7 = cheap. dual Xeon 3.06Ghz = each 1000 euro nearly. so 2000 euro for just 2 Xeons which are slower than fastest XP is anyway and XPs run dual. P4s 3.06 do not run dual. only xeon version does. note for those who directly want to buy xp's now. be aware you need to modify the XPs slightly in most cases the L5 cache. Not everyone can do it. Now if some US dudes from Texas post you don't need to modify them. then that's not 100% true. In some parts of USA they sell stuff as always that works somehow. In europe never. But bottomline: with less processes the K7 is faster. Less processes mean better speedup. so it's not only faster. it's better too. K7 is cheaper and kicks butt. Also note that K7 eats LESS power. that P4 3.06Ghz eats like 105 WATT each cpu. That's a lot more than the like 70 watt the K7 eats (i find that a lot too for x86 cpu). Best regards, Vincent
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