Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 10:36:15 06/02/04
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On June 02, 2004 at 09:13:03, Uri Blass wrote: >I agree that it is not a big difference but if there is a simple way to avoid >noise it is better to do it and I prefer to be able to control the processor >that the program is using so I do not care about difference in speed when I >always use processor A for movei and processor B for the opponents. As Bob already pointed out, the motherboard controls how fast each CPU runs. Think about what it means when you read that a CPU is a 1GHz CPU. All that means is that it can safely run at 1GHz. It doesn't mean that it _will_ run at 1GHz. For instance, if the BIOS is misconfigured, the CPU may only run at 2/3rd of the actual speed (I've had that happen, it's easy to change). Similarly, many people overclock their CPU to run faster than it is supposed to run. However, if you are only concerned with making sure the CPUs run at the same speed, the motherboard will take care of that. I don't think you can even make the CPUs run at different speeds. At least I've never tried :-)
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