Author: margolies,marc
Date: 19:36:23 01/22/04
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when ever I throw out an old cpu, they all hit the earth at 9.8meters-persecond**2 so none are any faster than that. The best single processor that I can think of is a 2.2 ghz 64 bit athlon opteron for about 800 US dollars. That's because it has the widest datapath and can use some of the lowest latency memory available. Each gigabyte of CAS 2.0 memory will also set you back another 800 bucks. The chipsets that server this opteron, particularly the NVidia NF3 NP150 Pro chipset, can handle 8 gigabytes of ram on the mainboard, that is provided you use only 2gigabyte DDR cards which cost about one thousand eight hundred dollars each. And dont put your data to be accessed on a slow hard drive either. A ten thousand speed rotating SATA (150gb throughput) drive with 78 gigabytes of storage costs only between 250 and 300 USD. in short, neither of your choices is the fastest processing engine for chess, but if i had to bet on one of them generically -- that is without specifying which chess engine is to be run on it-- I may chose the AMD 3000. Would that you meant to run Fritz8 I might change sides to the P4. On January 22, 2004 at 21:30:37, Lars Berglund wrote: >What is the fastest processor for computerchess. >AMD Athlon 3000+ or Pentium 4 3.0 ghz
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