Author: Robin Smith
Date: 20:29:12 12/21/04
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On December 21, 2004 at 15:56:01, Joachim Rang wrote: >On December 21, 2004 at 13:55:22, Marek Soszynski wrote: > >>There are quite a few old and cheap dual processor PCs available on eBay and >>elsewhere. Are they worth experimenting with? Are they much better than single >>processors for chess analysis etc? > >1.) Only Dual-capable engines profit from dual processors - they are usually >more expansive. This is only partially true. For analysis running two (or more) engines at the same time can be very effective, and when running two engines concurrently they don't need to be dual-capable. -Robin >2.) You can compare a Dual-Configuration to a Single-Configuration if you >multiply the clock of one proc in the dual-configuration with 1.8 - that's >approximately what you get as speedup. > >regards Joachim
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