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Author: William Penn

Date: 13:48:31 08/15/03

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WP,
I did a Shreddermark but consider it irrelevant. That's of no interest to me.
What matters to me is the kN/s in infinite analysis mode. Nothing else.
WP


On August 15, 2003 at 16:32:00, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote:

>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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