Author: Yen Art Tham
Date: 13:38:59 01/23/04
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On January 23, 2004 at 09:10:52, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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. When comparing nps between a dual and single---what is the equivalent knps a single must have to be equal in strength to a dual with let's say 700 knps?
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