Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 01:39:10 08/20/04
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On August 20, 2004 at 00:52:19, Dann Corbit wrote: >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. While that may be true for floating point and vector dependent programs, I'd be surprised if it's the case for chess programs. From what I've observed, the P3 is rougly equivalent to any Athlon in terms of performance/MHz. The P4 is slower. -Tom
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