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Subject: Re: fastest processor for computerchess

Author: David H. McClain

Date: 04:48:33 01/23/04

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On January 22, 2004 at 22:40:25, Robert Hyatt wrote:


>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

Dr. Hyatt,

I don't have the means or technical know how to test other processors for
overall performance.  When I play against other machines and they have "whisper"
turned on would it be logical for a layman to use their posted kn/s speed as a
"general" basis for speed and performance?



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