Author: Albert Silver
Date: 06:57:18 11/01/04
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On November 01, 2004 at 09:35:30, Peter Skinner wrote:
>On November 01, 2004 at 08:58:38, Albert Silver wrote:
>
>>Err, you mean the opposite no doubt. Hiarcs had the hardware advantage.
>
>Not so. An Athlon 1800+ is faster than a 2.0Ghz P4. Benchmark Crafty or any
>other program on them and you will see.
>
>Peter
Athlons do tend to favor most chess engines, but whether that is enough to
compensate a close to 500 MHz speed difference is really not clear to me. Each
engine is different, so if I wanted to judge this case, I'd test Chess Tiger
2004 specifically, but in theory I'd favor the faster processor.
Albert
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