Heh, I'm not an expert either, but from what I read up till now the limitations are not in a speed of the chip or number of cores, but in available instruction set and word length it offers. GPUs are much better at multidimensional vector math and are evolving year by year ( there's an interesting table illustrating the point here, note it's a year old already ). Best CPUs can offer for hash breaking is SSE2 ( see John the Ripper on Windows ), and SSE instruction set is ancient in computing terms. There is a reason dedicated password breaking hardware is made from GPU chips or PlayStation 3 processing units these days .
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PBEM4 - Email and Technical Issues
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And a little tidbit I just found re. CPU vs GPU performance with MD5 hashes. Funnily enough, from year 2008
 http://majuric.org/software/cudamd5/
I have the save since yesterday morning, but won't be able to play it until today at ~20h GMT. I've made a trip down memory lane the whole day yesterday and went to a Magic: The Gathering pre-release tournament (the first tournament I participated again since the German championships 1996 - man I'm getting old!
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There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, "This is new, and therefore better." - John Brunner, The Shockwave Rider
GREENS GAME:
I have lost enthusiasm for this game. Would any of you want to call it? Final positions as the scores are. If it would help convince you, i can post a few screenies to prove this game is genuinely over. I am not going to get a lot of enjoyment from here.
Agreed - attempted a war to try and keep my enthusiasm going but its just a complete stalemate that'll just end up messy for both and I don't need it.
Plus, this game was wrapped up even before I signed up to take over from strike so prolonging it may well be fruitless.
"You want to take my city of Troll%ng? Go ahead and try."
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