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Subject: Re: what i don't understand

Author: Charles Worthington

Date: 22:15:20 04/07/03

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On April 08, 2003 at 01:12:06, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>what i don't understand is that i test at production machines
>and speed is clearly in favour for the K7 in diep's case.
>
>frans morsch, creator of fritz, whom i regurarly email with finds the K7 also
>hell of a processor. he's looking forward to the prescott though but that will
>be 2004+.
>
>i'm looking forward to the itanic of AMD called Hammer but if they delay it
>until 2004 it is not anymore a hammer but more like a slow pencil.
>
>if it's released tomorrow then that will kick butt of course.
>
>basically hardware speed for DUALS is very clear.
>
>K7 XP wins there. 2 times CHEAPER. and a bit faster too.
>
>secondly.
>
>with regard to quad and 8 processor boxes. We speak then about $100k machines.
>starting at like $20k for the quads.
>
>there of course the 4 processor opteron will blow away everything. opteron gets
>released within a few weeks. so if you want to make a bit of money. buy some AMD
>stocks within a week (right after bagdad is under 'control') and sell them 2
>weeks after they revealed quad opteron boxes.
>
>The Quad opteron is on my "to buy" list so I will know soon enough what she will do :-)
Charles


>
>On April 08, 2003 at 01:03:21, Charles Worthington wrote:
>
>>On April 08, 2003 at 00:59:57, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>
>>>On April 08, 2003 at 00:55:43, Charles Worthington wrote:
>>>
>>>>On April 08, 2003 at 00:36:12, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On April 07, 2003 at 18:44:30, Charles Worthington wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On April 07, 2003 at 18:36:11, Anthony Cozzie wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Everyone already knows the Athlon is a numerical powerhouse and the Xeon was
>>>>>>>designed to demux HDTV streams for my grandmother, so there is really no need to
>>>>>>>'show you the speed'.  If you just can't understand the obvious, you should
>>>>>>>build yourself a *real* computer.  Technology moves fast, and you are already
>>>>>>>being left behind.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>anthony
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Perhaps, but that is still talk...I just want someone to come to the server and
>>>>>>enlighten us all as to the error of our ways but it seems that no one is willing
>>>>>>to come show us a real machine. Why could that be do you think? Could it be
>>>>>>because you know you cannot post a faster speed? I can show you deep fritz 7
>>>>>>screenshots as high as 5777kN/s in endgames with 2500-2900kN/s averages in
>>>>>>midgames. Lets both run a deepfritzmark and post the result here to compare.
>>>>>>That is a relatively simple way to show me what a real machine can do. I think
>>>>>>that is a reasonable request. I just want to see which machine I should be
>>>>>>playing chess with...
>>>>>
>>>>>At world champs 2002 chessbase showed up with AMD hardware. Guess why.
>>>>>
>>>>>Other champs they take what the sponsor gives them.
>>>>>
>>>>>I want to bet that the prescott is not released end of 2003. means that they
>>>>>will show up with dual AMD, because you can't clock the Xeon higher in 0.13 than
>>>>>it is now (3.06Ghz is limit simply as it consumes 105 watt there). Period.
>>>>>
>>>>>So the K7 which still can get clocked higher still than it is now till it also
>>>>>consumes around 100 watts, will get faster and faster till that time. It's
>>>>>already faster now.
>>>>>
>>>>>It's a matter of what the sponsor gives simply!
>>>>
>>>>Actually Matthias Feist Used his own Dual 2.8 Xeon for fritz at the latest
>>>>padderborn tournament. Call him on the phone and ask him why he did so....I did.
>>>>He did not use a machine supplied by a sponsor. he used his own personal
>>>>machine....and won the tournament.
>>>>
>>>>Charles
>>>
>>>Actually i played df7 there for like 6 hours. regrettably it came away with a
>>>draw against DIEP (yet again). diep managed to conquer a pawn after quite a
>>>while but to no avail.
>>>
>>>i asked him why he didn't run on a dual K7.
>>>
>>>answer: "sponsor gave this machine"
>>>
>>>i aske dhim whether he had tested whether 2 threads with SMT turned off were
>>>giving bigger search depth than 4 threads with SMT turned on. He told me he
>>>hadn't tested it at all. That's why he used 4 threads.
>>>
>>>That's why stefan who had tested it, played with SMT turned off and played dual
>>>Xeon 2.8.
>>>
>>>if you have a sponsor like they have, you always go for the machine the sponsor
>>>provide. the alternative is buying a dual K7, and that's quite a bit more
>>>expensive than using that provided machine...
>>>
>>>I got home. quoted for first position out of book fritz had against me what
>>>speed it there had and some people who sometimes post here too, had a much
>>>faster fritz at their dual K7.
>>>
>>>Best regards,
>>>Vincent
>>
>>A friend and i just took dual screenshots on the chessbase server she is in the
>>process of posting them here....Look at those and please show me a faster nP/s
>>screenshot from the dual k7....
>>Charles



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