Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 06:00:53 06/02/04
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On June 02, 2004 at 08:40:55, Uri Blass wrote: >I plan to buy a cheap computer with 2 processors dual PIII1000 Mhz for testing. >I will probably also buy more expensive computer for WCCC with one processor >when I may use the cheap computer for testing with ponder on. > > >I still did not buy it and before buying it I have a question. > >The question is if I can tell the program which processor to use or tell the >program to choose automatically one of them when I have no control about it. > >Another question is if I can be sure that the processors are of equal speed(if >they are not of equal speed then the question which processor the program is >using may be important. > >Can I be sure that one 1 Ghz is not 1.01ghz when the second 1ghz is 0.99 ghz? > >Uri This would make make one processor a little over 1.02 times faster for a less 3 elo advantage if it assumed that each doubling of speed is worth 100 elo. To resolve such a difference in your testing would require an obscene number of games. In other words, it's not relevant. I would suggest you test this out for yourself, but I'm afraid we might not ever hear from you again. It is better not to worry about it.
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