upgrades and cpu / engine performance

[benstoker]

With stockfish as a measuring stick, does anyone have an idea what increas in nps one gets going from a dual core e7500 that gets approx. nps 2137k on 2 cores, to quad core q8400? What would be the expected stockfish nps on a q8400?

Thanks

[tjfroh]

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/2009 ... ,1406.html

Probably twice as many NPS. Still, it is very slow compared to top of the line microprocessors. Next year we are going to eight core processors at 35 nanometers for the circuitry width.

Tj

PS There is no end to this madness.

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/2009 ... ,1406.html

Probably twice as many NPS. Still, it is very slow compared to top of the line microprocessors. Next year we are going to eight core processors at 35 nanometers for the circuitry width.

Tj

PS There is no end to this madness.

It's simply an industry business uncle Timbo
Dr.D

[Jim Walker]

"PS There is no end to this madness."

Actually I think they are approaching the limits of silicon.
Jim