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Subject: Re: Which computer is better for chess?

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 11:01:34 02/08/04

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On February 08, 2004 at 13:23:14, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On February 08, 2004 at 10:32:14, Mike Byrne wrote:
>
>>On February 08, 2004 at 10:29:58, Mike Byrne wrote:
>>
>>>Aloisio,
>>>
>>>My apologies ...I was correcting a misposting by me and when I deleted my post,
>>>I accidently entered the wrong message number.  The wrong number was your post
>>>below.
>>>
>>>Michael
>>>
>>>
>>>======================================================================
>>>Posted by Aloisio Ponti Lopes (Profile) on February 08, 2004 at 09:11:45:
>>>
>>>
>>>Which one is faster FOR CHESS: a Pentium4-HT 3.2 GHz or a Dual Athlon 2x2.4 GHz
>>>?
>>>
>>>A. Ponti
>>
>>
>>My guess is that dual Athlon 2.4 Ghz would be faster than single P4 3.2 Ghz CPU
>>.
>
>For DIEP about 2.0 times faster.
>
>2.127Ghz K7 gives about 100k nps here
>P4 3.2Ghz (800Mhz bus) with 2 threads see aceshardware.com
>
>so do the math.

I don't like the comparison at aceshardware, they compare nps directly between
Diep on the Athlon with one thread and the P4 with two threads.

I think they should have mentioned that the efficiency of the extra thread isn't
100%.

So I'm left asking, "What does the test show?" and "How much faster is the
Athlon for Diep?".

-S.

>Overclocking the P4 to 3.5ghz or so and also overclocking bus doing that is
>speeding up the node count of diep quite some though. Way more than i had
>expected, as proven by Ron Langeveld.
>
>>Michael



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