Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 09:04:58 04/27/05
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On April 27, 2005 at 11:29:07, John Sidles wrote: >Is this the newest "ultimate" desktop chess computer? Absolutely not. The G5 is a rather slow processor for chess programs, and for integer computations in general (its strong side is floating-point operations, which are not important for chess programs). My iMac G5 1.8 GHz, for instance, is clearly slower than the old Pentium IV 2.4 GHz in my office, for all the chess programs I have tried. Not even 64-bit programs like Crafty are faster on the G5. A dual 2.7 GHz G5 is of course much faster than a single 1.8 GHz, but it still not even remotely close to a dual opteron. The PowerMac G5 is an awesome machine, but if the "ultimate desktop chess computer" is what you are looking for, you should look elsewhere. Tord
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