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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