Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 15:22:01 06/29/03
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On June 29, 2003 at 08:15:58, Peter Stayne wrote: nonsense. with exception of the p4 optimized fritz, trivially all the other software that doesn't fit within the trace cache is smoking that P4 of yours everywhere. For diep a 3.06Ghz P4 gives 95k nps single cpu my own MP2600s give 104k nps single cpu MP2600s of mine are clocked 2.127Ghz It's around 10% faster. >Actually Aaron and I recently had a very lengthy discussion about that last >week. My dual 3.06's are certainly faster than a dual 2133MHz, and probably a >tad slower than Aaron's overclocked babies. > >If you don't mind overclocked (I've had many overclocked boxes in the past), go >with Aaron's machines. If you'd feel safer with stock speeds, the Xeons are >faster (the 533MHz ones anyways). > >See this page for more info: > >http://www.beepworld.de/members38/lchristian/cpu-chess.htm > >Pete > >On June 29, 2003 at 06:18:08, Joachim Rang wrote: > >>On June 29, 2003 at 05:56:38, emerson tan wrote: >> >>>what is faster for chess, dual 2.8 Ghz xeon or dual athlon mp 2.800+? >>> >>>John nunn chose xeon when he upgraded his computer, I thought amd is usually >>>fater for chess. Does anyone have a fritzmark comparing these two systems? >>>thanks >> >>Aaron posted some results with Atholon MPs recently. He sells overclocked but >>tested MP-Chips very cheap. >> >>From all posts I know the Xeons give 70% Chessperformance compared to Athlons at >>the same speed. So: >> >>Xeon 2,8 GHz equal Athlon@1,96 Ghz >> >>An MP2800+ has 2,133 Ghz = 3,05 Ghz Xeon or P4-Performacne. >> >>I would suggest to buy a Dual Athlon MP 2600+ since the 2600+ has the same Mhz >>and only a lesser L2-Cache. For chess a L2-Cache does not matter much, so an >>MP2600+ will be as fast as a MP2800+ (but cheaper). >> >>regards Joachim
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