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🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Sat, Sep 21 08:28 PM UTC:

I had my two desktop computers play four games of Chess on Zillions-of-Games. For the first two, each computer had 1 second of thinking time, and the new computer won both games. For the next two, I gave my old computer 2 seconds of thinking time but kept the new one at one second. For these, the game was a draw when my new computer played White, and the old computer won when it played White.

My hypothesis is that a better CPU helps Zillions-of-Games play better. My new computer's CPU is better in two out of three ways. It has more cores, and each core can be overclocked to a higher speed. But the old computer's CPU is better in one way, which is that the base speed of each core is higher. I suspect the higher overclocking is making more of the difference, because Zillions-of-Games is old enough that it might not make use of multiple cores.

One other difference between them, which I'm not sure is an advantage either way, is that the new one is Intel, and the old one is AMD. Another factor that may be at play is that the new computer has faster RAM and four times as much RAM. Still, more testing needs to be done to see if the new computer consistently has an advantage.


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