Author: Aaron Gordon
Date: 08:11:49 04/09/03
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On April 09, 2003 at 07:52:52, Pavel Blokhine wrote: >On April 09, 2003 at 07:36:31, Aaron Gordon wrote: > >>On April 09, 2003 at 04:20:05, Pavel Blokhine wrote: >> >>>On April 08, 2003 at 23:33:28, Aaron Gordon wrote: >>> >>>>On April 08, 2003 at 12:00:58, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >>>> >>>>>I believe you. I just thought it was a fun prank to pull. Athlon's don't have >>>>>hyperthreading, nor can anyone get them to run at 2.9GHZ. I do think the athlon >>>>>is a superior processor, though. >>>>> >>>>>Anthony >>>> >>>>I've got a friend that runs 3.1GHz with freon (Prometeia). There are also people >>>>who get 3.0-3.4GHz with Dry Ice and Liquid Nitrogen. >>> >>> >>> >>>I hope you will all forgive my ignorance on the subject, but what the hell is K7 >>>XP? What kind of computer is that? >> >>K7 is AMD's 7th Generation class of CPU. It's just an Athlon, so K7 XP means >>Athlon XP. > > >Ok thanks. But how is it supposed to be faster than a dual Xeon 2.8 Ghz? The Athlon is faster because it does more work per clock cycle. Imagine someone 50 feet tall making 1 foot step every second. Now imagine a midget taking 10 steps per second.. who would cover more ground? The 50 foot person of course. The other person is taking 10 steps per second vs 1 step per second. Same thing applies with processors. 2.8GHz doesn't mean you're going to be faster than 2.1GHz. An AthlonXP 2200+ (1.8GHz) is about the speed of a P4-2.8GHz in chess, sometimes faster. An AthlonXP 2600+/266 is 2.13GHz, so I'm not sure where Charles is coming up with his numbers. He mainly spouts garbage from Playchess, which honestly means absolutely nothing. The games are all different, the positions are different so there is no "controlled" test to see which is faster. He was stating he gets 5 million some-odd nodes/second spikes, sure, anyone can do that. Try running it for more than 1 second though. I could fire up Goliath Light v1.5 and get something on the order of 7-8 million node/second spikes. Big deal. Run a real test. I've done the controlled tests, AthlonXP's are faster by far. Plain and simple.
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