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Subject: Re: iron for chess

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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