Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 21:52:19 08/19/04
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On August 20, 2004 at 00:29:26, Stuart Cracraft wrote: >Hi, > >I've got an old Pentium 3 @ 1ghz and want to get >something faster that will be good for chess. > >How do today's Intel and AMD chips stack up >compared to the above. 3x? 4x? 10x? 2.2 GHz AMD 64 bit should be about 3x that fast. >Something coming around the corner I should >wait for? The price will always drop exponentially compared to the compute power over time. You will always get a better machine tomorrow than today. But if you wait forever, you will never get anything. >Assume all other chess settings are the same, >hash settings, etc and that native mode >compilation is done. > >Currently getting a 10 ply search of the opening >position in about 9.4 seconds. That cannot be compared to other systems without the binary.
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