Author: Richard A. Fowell (fowell@netcom.com)
Date: 20:58:39 03/20/99
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On March 19, 1999 at 00:25:42, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >On March 18, 1999 at 18:51:20, Micheal Cummings wrote: > >> >>On March 18, 1999 at 18:24:22, Will Singleton wrote: >> >>> >>>Matt, >>> >>>I see you'll be using a g3/233. From my experience with H6 on the G3 series, I >>>find it benefits quite a lot from faster hardware. You might pick up quite a >>>rating boost if you were to use a g3/400 (main bus at 100mhz(?) vs 66 for the >>>older 233). >>> >>>Have you considered renting/leasing a g3/400 for the match? Should'nt be very >>>expensive. >>> >>>Will >> >> >>I agree, I would have thought if you were going to play a game like this and >>make it a big deal for the chess community that you would try and go for the >>fastest PC on the market, maybe not the new PIII chips but at least a PII 450. If Matt can talk Yermolinsky into allowing a faster machine, that would give HIARCS better chances. But it should still be a G3. The fastest PC on the market (as far as HIARCS 7.0 is concerned) is the G3. The stock Apple G3/400 is as fast as any current PC, and several 3rd parties are selling G3/466 CPU upgrades. Further, the 466 takes well to overclocking (unlike the PIII), and at least one 3rd party card defaults to 550 MHz when put in the new Apple G3/300/350/450. (http://www.macintouch.com/g3zif466.html) Here's my numbers - see my data at the end. Matt's G3/233 = Pentium II/320 MHz Stock, Apple G3/400 = Pentium II/557 MHz 3rd party G3/466 = Pentium II/650 MHz Overclocked G3/550 = Pentium II/750 MHz I >>think Hiarcs 7 will get its butt whipped. I think the hardware used will make >>this a pretty easy kill for the human player. > >How fast is a Power PC 233 thing when compared to a Pentium II? What is the >approximately equivalent Pentium II chip? > >bruce Power PC 233 Mz = Pentium II 320 MHz, Data (note that this data is based on 2.5 hours of testing on each platform, over 33 problems chosen to include tactical, positional, and endgame situations, and at time control representative of the upcoming match). HIARCS 7 - with 64Mb Hash (Mac) or 63Mb Hash (PC) Machine CPU MHz CPU Nodes/second nps/MHz Configuration =================================================================== Mac Yosemite 400 MHz 750 53,413 nps 133.5 Sys 8.5.1, 128Mb RAM, G3 Mac Yosemite 350 MHz 750 47,615 nps 136.0 Sys 8.5.1, 128Mb RAM, G3 Mac PowerBook 300 MHz 750 40,062 nps 133.5 Sys 8.5, 192Mb RAM, G3 Mac ??? 310 MHz 750 38,929 nps 125.6 Sys 8.1, accel. card? Pent II /400 400 MHz PII 38,347 nps 95.9 Win 98 "safe mode" (DOS) AMD K6/350 350 MHz K6 35,052 nps 100.1 Win 95, -x 63 Mb hash Mac iMac 233 MHz 750 30,942 nps 132.8 Sys 8.5.1, 96Mb RAM Mac 7300/180 180 MHz 604e 20,567 nps 114.3 Sys 7.5.5, 80Mb RAM Pentium MMX 200 MHz P5? 18,910 nps 94.5 SSDF test machine, 64Mb RAM Mac 6100/ 66 66 MHz 601 4,862 nps 73.7 Sys 7.5 , 72Mb RAM
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