Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 10:31:29 02/05/05
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On February 05, 2005 at 13:14:54, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On February 05, 2005 at 13:11:21, Mike Byrne wrote: > >>On February 05, 2005 at 12:44:48, Ray Banks wrote: >> >>>Aren't they better performers for chess ? >> >>$$$ I priced a dual Opteron 250 at around $4500. It would be 50% faster, at a >>almost 4x the cost. My accounting and cost control background prohibits me from >>being able to justify 50% increased performance at 4x cost. >> >>If I become independently wealthy, I may reconsider. > >Nobody says you must buy a 250. You could get a lower one for a singificantly >lower price and still have them easily outperform the Pentiums. Correct if you are running a 64 bit OS, which I am not ready to do yet. Fron the Specs results I have seen an Opteron will gain 50% when running Crafty in 64 bit mode (as compared to 32 bit mode). I do not have a 64 bit Os or 64 bitcompiler and I'm not comfortable with Linux and do have the time right now to get comfortable. So I choose a 32 bit porcessor to run 32 bit software in an enviroment that I am comfortable without spending a lot of energy , dollars or both. >-- >GCP
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