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Subject: Re: fastest processor for computerchess

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:10:52 01/23/04

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On January 23, 2004 at 07:48:33, David H. McClain wrote:

>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?


Yes, so long as you are careful to compare the same program and same version
when you look at hardware/nps numbers.  Different programs are not comparable
in terms of NPS, neither are different versions of the same program.



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