Author: Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso
Date: 14:50:30 06/02/03
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Without answering directly to your question I would like to say that there are P4 CPUs and then there are P4 CPUs. What I mean is that given two systems with the same P4 they can be quite different in performance. Here is a test I made: I work at a school and we have several low end P4 systems with sound and graphics on board (very cheap systems). The chipset is from SIS and I think memory is PC133. I used a program I wrote for generating EGTBs for the game of checkers. Here is the result: my system (1GHz Celeron bus 100Mhz) : 16 minutes a system at my work place (P4 2.4Ghz) : 14 minutes a fried's system (Athlon XP 2000+ [1.666Ghz]) : 11 minutes Only 2 minutes separates my old system (1Ghz Celeron bus 100) from a powerfull P4 at 2.4Ghz. Clearly that P4 is being hindered by the memory subsystem and chipset. Regards, Alvaro Cardoso
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