Author: Frank Quisinsky
Date: 05:49:42 12/12/04
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On December 12, 2004 at 08:40:17, Ray Banks wrote: >AMDs heat issues dated back years ago to their Thunderbird processors. Today, an >AMD64 or Opteron is the coolest high performance processor you can buy (notebook >processors excepted) > >Now, Intel's Prescotts are the joke of the I.T. industry in terms of heat. They >run so hot that unless they are VERY well cooled in a well designed case they >have to throttle back to decrease the heat. > >I'd completely avoid Intel for chess work where the procesor will be pegged at >100% load continuously. The Centrino mobiles are the exception, these are a >fantastic processor. > >In a business environment, airconditioning systems take away most of the Intel >heat risks, but in a home environment, I'd avoid an Intel Prescott based >processor at all costs. Hi, I like 90% of your comments. It seems that its better to understand in your English as in my Frankish :-) I don't try often the Centrino 1.6 Siemens / Nixdorf notebook I have here. But you have totally right, the temparature of the new Athlon 64 processor is really good. I believe AMD have solved the most oder problems with the new processor and the answer must come from Intel now. We can wait of it ... But all in one, the most interesting processor for me is the Xeon by Intel. The problem is the high price. The Xeon I have with 2.8 GHz is just great, my favorite system from all and very very fast for different things I made (not only chess). If I made analyzes with Shredder is 1.1 - 1.2 million nodes per second just fantastic. And the system is now 1 year old! Best Frank
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