Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:40:25 01/22/04
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On January 22, 2004 at 22:36:23, margolies,marc wrote: >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. You were doing good until you got to the SATA drive. Throw it away and get a 15K U320 SCSI drive... >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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