10 Apr 10
OK, I've got a brand new Dell computer at work. Don't know the specs but my company doesn't skimp. Installed Fritz on it to do some chess when my boss isn't looking. Calculates 3000 killa something ply per second. My home computer is almost eight years old. It's a Dell also, mid-range when I bought it. It calculates about 1000 killa ply per second with similar Fritz software (not identical, whatever the difference is between Chessbase 2007 Light and 2009 Light, figure it doesn't matter too much as far as processing speed). Anyway, how is it that pc's have only trippled in speed after eight years? Seems to violate Joe Bob's Theorem that computers double in speed every 18 months.
10 Apr 10
Originally posted by ReverbThe DDR SDRAM (double data rate synchronous DRAM) is about twice as fast at the old SDR SDRAM.
OK, I've got a brand new Dell computer at work. Don't know the specs but my company doesn't skimp. Installed Fritz on it to do some chess when my boss isn't looking. Calculates 3000 killa something ply per second. My home computer is almost eight years old. It's a Dell also, mid-range when I bought it. It calculates about 1000 killa ply per second with s ...[text shortened]... ars? Seems to violate Joe Bob's Theorem that computers double in speed every 18 months.
That's all I know of it but I'm sure there is more to the story.
10 Apr 10
Originally posted by ReverbI think you're talking about Moore's Law?
OK, I've got a brand new Dell computer at work. Don't know the specs but my company doesn't skimp. Installed Fritz on it to do some chess when my boss isn't looking. Calculates 3000 killa something ply per second. My home computer is almost eight years old. It's a Dell also, mid-range when I bought it. It calculates about 1000 killa ply per second with s ...[text shortened]... ars? Seems to violate Joe Bob's Theorem that computers double in speed every 18 months.
Here's the story:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law
10 Apr 10
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Originally posted by Reverbmy first guess is you slipped an extra zero on the '3000' figure.
OK, I've got a brand new Dell computer at work. Don't know the specs but my company doesn't skimp. Installed Fritz on it to do some chess when my boss isn't looking. Calculates 3000 killa something ply per second. My home computer is almost eight years old. It's a Dell also, mid-range when I bought it. It calculates about 1000 killa ply per second with s ars? Seems to violate Joe Bob's Theorem that computers double in speed every 18 months.
oh wait, I mixed them up, that was the NEW machine...
well, anyway, somethings very wrong there, the numbers don't add up.