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Subject: Re: How fast is an Opteron 64 3400?

Author: Evgeny Shu

Date: 12:55:58 02/15/05

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On February 14, 2005 at 07:35:28, James T. Walker wrote:

>On February 14, 2005 at 04:05:51, George C Williams wrote:
>
>>I'm considering upgrading from an XP2400, I'm wondering if it would be worth the
>>upgrade, will I actually see a huge increase in strength or NPS.
>
>Check out http://www.beepworld.de/members39/computerschach2/chessmarks.htm
>It looks like you will only get about 35-40% increase in speed.  For me it's not
>enough unless the upgrade is really cheap.  So far I haven't found a cheap
>enough upgrade to do the deed.  I will not upgrade untill I can at least double
>the speed (maybe 50-60 Elo).  I've had my XP2400+ for about 2 years now.  What
>happened to the "double speed every 18 months" idea?
>Jim

Wait for the dual-core cpus..



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