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Subject: Re: Pentium 3 + 4 Speeds for Chess Programs

Author: Rajen Gupta

Date: 13:02:34 06/24/03

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see this link: gives you  pretty fair comparison for number of diferent
processors. these benchmarks give a pretty fair approximation for chess related
bnchmarks.

http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1834&p=6

On June 24, 2003 at 13:33:23, Mike Hood wrote:

>In the article recently posted on Chessbase's site John Nunn points out that for
>applications that use a lot of integer arithmetic (like chess programs) a
>Pentium 4 is slower than a Pentium 3 at the same clock speed. This is news to
>me... can anybody please quantify this by giving in percent how much slower it
>is. Either by references to web pages or the results of your own experiments.
>
>This could help me in my next computer purchase. My finances are limited, so one
>of my options is to choose between a fast Pentium 3 and a slow Pentium 4.



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