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Subject: Re: . . . M O R E . . . S P E E D . . .

Author: Timothy J. Frohlick

Date: 13:32:00 08/15/03

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Bill,

What is your Shredder Mark?

TJF

PS Get an AMD Processor....much faster than Celerons.

On August 15, 2003 at 16:27:54, William Penn wrote:

>I have had a 500MHz Celeron/256MB system for quite a few years. I just bought a
>new 2.6GHz Celeron/512MB computer and was expecting my chess software to run
>about 5X faster. It doesn't!? After considerable comparisons and benchmarking,
>it's clear that it runs about 2.2X faster. My tests & benchmarks are based on
>kN/s in infinite analysis mode using various practical chess positions and the
>Shredder 7.04 UCI engine in the CB GUI.
>
>What is the most important single other factor (besides processor speed) that
>would increase the speed of this engine in terms of kN/s? I'm sure that more RAM
>wouldn't do very much. Is it "BUS speed", or "memory speed", or "processor cache
>size", or "processor type", or what? I'm not interested in minor factors, just
>the most important one.
>WP



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