What is the best CPU for computer chess today?

[tano-urayoan]

You will need modified X58 based motherboard for upcoming 6 cores Intel processors in q4 2009.

No, just new bioses.

[Peter Skinner]

Best in what terms?

You probably want to look at Core i7 920.

If you want to spend as few money as possible, I like the AMD Phenom II line too, but it won't reach the performance of the Core i7.

I have a Phenom II x4 920 system, and the performance was better than the Intel Quad 8300 I benchmarked, but about 30% slower than the i7 I tested.

Here is my setup:

Desktop
Antec Sonata III Mid Quiet Case Tower
Cooler Master Silent Pro M 700W Power Supply
Phenom II x4 920 Processor
ASUS M3A78-CM Motherboard (1903 Bios)
8 GB G.Skill memory
Ati Radeon 4830 1GB Card (Modded with Arctic Cooling Accelero S1 Rev 2 Cooler, so it is 100% silent)
2 x Western Digital WD1001FALS Caviar Black 1TB
2 x Western Digital WD6401AALS Caviar Black 640GB
1 x Seagate FreeAgent Pro 750GB External Drive
2 x Samsung SH-223F SATA DVD Burners
Windows Vista Ultimate x64 / Ubuntu x64 (Tonight will be Fedora 11)

Laptop
Dell XPS M1530
Intel Core 2 Duo T8300
4GB RAM
Western Digital 250G Hard Drive
Nvidia Geforce 8600M Video Card
Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN PCI-E Card
Windows Vista Ultimate x64 / Fedora 11

Both systems are near silent. Once in a blue moon I will hear the fan for my desktop kick in, and even that is pretty quiet.

Peter

[M ANSARI]

Core i7 920 with a D0 stepping and a good Gigabyte or Asus motherboard with fast DDR 3 RAM would be a good start. Apparently the D0's are getting insane overclocking speeds which can reach close to the performance of an 8 core Skulltrail. I have an earlier stepping i7 and the best clock I could get was around 3.6 Ghz ... the D0's seem to be getting 4 Ghz+

[Sean Evans]

Core i7 920 with a D0 stepping and a good Gigabyte or Asus motherboard with fast DDR 3 RAM would be a good start. Apparently the D0's are getting insane overclocking speeds which can reach close to the performance of an 8 core Skulltrail. I have an earlier stepping i7 and the best clock I could get was around 3.6 Ghz ... the D0's seem to be getting 4 Ghz+

Hi, can you illuminate this technophobe on the term DO stepping.

Thank you,

Sean

[Gregory Owett]

Hi,

What do you think of this machine?

Antec(Twelve Hundred 142,99 €)
or P193 169,99 E
Antec TruePower New - 650W 107,99 €
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 S-ATA - 1000 Go - 32 Mo 88,99 €
Samsung SH-S223Q - OEM, noir 25,95 €
Intel® Core™ i7 975 Extreme Edition 949,99 €
Asus P6T6 WS Revolution 344,99 €
Corsair TWIN3X 2 x 2 Go DDR3 PC12800 CAS 9 99,99 €
Club 3D GeForce 9500 GT 512 Mo DDR3 52,99 €
Cooler Master V8 - Socket 1366 55,95 €
Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop 3000 (oem) 32,95 €

Materiel.net Montage 30,00 €

TOTAL TTC 1 959,78 €

Is this worth to buy it?

[bob]

Core i7 920 with a D0 stepping and a good Gigabyte or Asus motherboard with fast DDR 3 RAM would be a good start. Apparently the D0's are getting insane overclocking speeds which can reach close to the performance of an 8 core Skulltrail. I have an earlier stepping i7 and the best clock I could get was around 3.6 Ghz ... the D0's seem to be getting 4 Ghz+

Hi, can you illuminate this technophobe on the term DO stepping.

Thank you,

Sean

Intel introduces a new processor every now and then. And then at various points along the way, they make changes, either to the manufacturing process, or the actual layout itself. So you get various "steppings" which are similar to minor version numbers in software. For example my core2 laptop is a T7200, stepping 6.

[Sean Evans]

Core i7 920 with a D0 stepping and a good Gigabyte or Asus motherboard with fast DDR 3 RAM would be a good start. Apparently the D0's are getting insane overclocking speeds which can reach close to the performance of an 8 core Skulltrail. I have an earlier stepping i7 and the best clock I could get was around 3.6 Ghz ... the D0's seem to be getting 4 Ghz+

Hi, can you illuminate this technophobe on the term DO stepping.

Thank you,

Sean

Intel introduces a new processor every now and then. And then at various points along the way, they make changes, either to the manufacturing process, or the actual layout itself. So you get various "steppings" which are similar to minor version numbers in software. For example my core2 laptop is a T7200, stepping 6.

Hi Bob, okay thanks.

[tano-urayoan]

Hi,

What do you think of this machine?

Antec(Twelve Hundred 142,99 €)
or P193 169,99 E
Antec TruePower New - 650W 107,99 €
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 S-ATA - 1000 Go - 32 Mo 88,99 €
Samsung SH-S223Q - OEM, noir 25,95 €
Intel® Core™ i7 975 Extreme Edition 949,99 €
Asus P6T6 WS Revolution 344,99 €
Corsair TWIN3X 2 x 2 Go DDR3 PC12800 CAS 9 99,99 €
Club 3D GeForce 9500 GT 512 Mo DDR3 52,99 €
Cooler Master V8 - Socket 1366 55,95 €
Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop 3000 (oem) 32,95 €

Materiel.net Montage 30,00 €

TOTAL TTC 1 959,78 €

Is this worth to buy it?

In overclocking forums they bash the asus p6t as bad for overclocking.

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

Hi,

What do you think of this machine?

Antec(Twelve Hundred 142,99 €)
or P193 169,99 E
Antec TruePower New - 650W 107,99 €
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 S-ATA - 1000 Go - 32 Mo 88,99 €
Samsung SH-S223Q - OEM, noir 25,95 €
Intel® Core™ i7 975 Extreme Edition 949,99 €
Asus P6T6 WS Revolution 344,99 €
Corsair TWIN3X 2 x 2 Go DDR3 PC12800 CAS 9 99,99 €
Club 3D GeForce 9500 GT 512 Mo DDR3 52,99 €
Cooler Master V8 - Socket 1366 55,95 €
Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop 3000 (oem) 32,95 €

Materiel.net Montage 30,00 €

TOTAL TTC 1 959,78 €

Is this worth to buy it?

In overclocking forums they bash the asus p6t as bad for overclocking.

Yeah,that's right....Gigabyte and MSI are better in this matter....
Dr.D

[Spock]

You will need modified X58 based motherboard for upcoming 6 cores Intel processors in q4 2009.

No, just new bioses.

Assuming that the manufacturer of your board decides to release one