Author: Joachim Rang
Date: 12:02:30 12/12/04
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On December 12, 2004 at 05:36:56, Brian Katz wrote: >Is AMD still regarded to be better for Chess than Pentium. > >How does the AMD Athlon 64 2.4 Gig 3700+ compare to Pentium 4 fastest processor? > >I am presently using an AMD Athlon 2.1 Gig 2600+. Would upgrading to the 3700+ >be a major improvement, or should I wait another year? > >Brian AMD is still better in both aspects of total performance and price per performance. Look here: http://www.beepworld.de/members39/computerschach2/chessmarks.htm (The first entry is with Hyperthreading enabled and does not reflect the real playing strength) and here: http://www.geocities.com/sedatchess/hardwere.html (this test favors AMD more than the average engine would benefit I think) regards Joachim
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