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Subject: Re: PC AMD A64 X2 --- question about speed rating and performance

Author: Harvey Williamson

Date: 14:23:40 08/05/05

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On August 05, 2005 at 16:15:19, Lance Perkins wrote:

>On August 05, 2005 at 14:04:11, Joachim Rang wrote:
>
>>On August 05, 2005 at 11:10:56, Harvey Williamson wrote:
>>
>>>On August 05, 2005 at 10:16:21, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>>>
>>>>On August 05, 2005 at 09:56:40, S J J wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Both  Athlon 64 4000+ and Athlon 64 X2 4800+ (dual) are both available.
>>>>>Assuming that both cores could be taken advantage of, does the 4800+
>>>>>give only 20% more nps (4800/4000) or twice that due to the dual cores??
>>>>
>>>>Twice that, *if* the program supports multiple processors.
>>>>
>>>>--
>>>>GCP
>>>
>>>But if you want to play engine v engine matches does each engine take 1 core so
>>>ponder can be left on?
>>
>>that is correct. However it might be neccessary to bind one process to one and
>>the other process to the other core. This is possible under Windows although I
>>don't know how.
>>
>>regards Joachim
>
>open task manager, then right-click on the process, and then select "afinity"


Will this work because when running an engine match in CB GUI it just shows as
chessprogram8.exe, in task manager, so how would you assign the engines
seperately - or if you wanted to run a multi-engine match and you wanted to
ensure that in each game each engine gets 1 core?



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