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Subject: Re: Suggestions for hardware ?

Author: Joachim Rang

Date: 04:46:58 03/17/04

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On March 16, 2004 at 18:14:42, Joost Buijs wrote:

>My impression is that they are about equal.
>I have two dual machines here, one dual MP2800+ and a dual Xeon 3.0 Ghz.
>Deep Fritz 8 gets about 2000 kn/sec. on the MP2800+ and about 2400 kn/sec. on
>the Xeons with 4 threads and hyperthreading. Probably Fritz favors the Xeons
>because it is using MMX extensively, and clock speed becomes important then.
>Deep Junior is doing better on the MP2800's for instance.

without hyperthreading you will probably get the same nps. 2400 knps with 4
threads are probably nor more efficient than two threads with 2000 knps due to
the efficiency loss with more processors.

In general Xeons and P4 have an efficiency of 70% in comparison to AMD Athlon
for chess, thus 3 GHz Xeon are equal to 2.1 GHz AMD Athlon. With Hyperthreading
you may be able to boost your knps but I don't think that you get greater depths
or increased strength.

regards Joachim



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