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Subject: Re: iron for chess

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 03:04:09 08/20/04

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On August 20, 2004 at 04:39:10, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>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

I use AMD 1 ghz and Athlon64 3000 that is 2ghz for chess programs.
Based on my experience the athlon64 2ghz is nearly 3 times faster for movei(I do
not remember exact numbers at this moment)

I also get more than 2 times speed improvement for other programs.
I will check later exact speed difference to give better results.

The AMD 1 ghz is only slightly faster than previous pentiumIII 800Mhz and
PIII850 mhz that I used and it seems to me that there is no big difference
between AMD 1 ghz and pentium1 ghz.

Uri



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