Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 20:48:27 03/04/99
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On March 04, 1999 at 23:04:37, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On March 04, 1999 at 19:22:50, Mark Ryan wrote: > >>Greetings: obviously speed is important in computer chess. Please keep us all >>up to date on your knowledge of the fastest available PCs. Your input is >>valuable, and we are reading it all with great interest. >> >>Thanks, >>Mark >> >> >> > > > >I think that the PIII, for a while, is not going to be real interesting for >chess programs. the extra 50mhz is not real noticable... and the new hardware >instructions are not being used in any chess engines so far. So you can expect >a nominal improvement based on the clock frequency, but nothing else. Maybe >when MSVC 7 comes out, it will produce the new instructions when they can be >useful and we might see more performance. At present, the PII/450 has to be >the best deal. Or the Celeron at 450... > Based on price/performance, the sure winner is dual PII/350 (or dual Celeron/450, if you can enable SMP there - there are instructions on the web how to do that, but you must be able to do some soldering; I myself unable). Eugene >> >>On March 04, 1999 at 03:28:08, Baldomero Garcia, Jr. wrote: >> >>>I saw at the Computer Shopper site that the new Pentium III 500 Mhz machines >>>were available now. >>>I was wondering how much faster they were compared to the PII 450 Mhz. I >>>visited the Byte Online >>>web site, and basically, the answer was that in some cases, the PIII 500 were >>>20% faster (which is >>>significant), while in some others the PII 450 were actually faster. So, I >>>guess if you're looking for >>>a faster processor for your computer programs, it'd be best to wait for a faster >>>computer if you already >>>have a PII 450. Not only that, considering the price drop of PII 450's, that >>>would be a better buy if >>>you have something slower. >>> >>>I also looked at the Macintosh side of the house. I'm not a big fan of >>>Macintosh, even though I own one. >>>Apparently, Apple brags that the new G3 400 Mhz is faster than the PII 450 Mhz, >>>at least in the integer >>>test conducted by Byte magazine. The problem is, there are not a lot of >>>computer chess programs available >>>for the Mac. I think HIARCS is the only commercial one, while Mac Chess 5.0 and >>>Crafty (Mac version) >>>are available as freeware. I'm not sure how strong Chessmaster 4000 for the Mac >>>is. >>> >>>In any case, it'd be interesting to see the rating lists from the SSDF include >>>faster processors than the aging >>>P200. Of course, money is the big issue in upgrading computers, and I'm not >>>sure when we should expect >>>the upgrades to happen.
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