Author: Jonas Cohonas
Date: 06:23:55 09/13/01
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On September 13, 2001 at 09:20:19, Jonas Cohonas wrote: >On September 13, 2001 at 08:36:22, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>On September 13, 2001 at 05:40:58, Jonas Cohonas wrote: >> >>>On September 12, 2001 at 19:27:18, ERIQ wrote: >>> >>>>I generally run linux so would love to have dual system but am not sure which >>>>would run crafty faster the single athlon or dual pIII's. but I am sure they are >>>>both faster than what I have now a 433 cel. :( >>>> >>>>(must upgrade fast) >>>> >>>>Let me also say that I would like something under $2,000 us. and would not mind >>>>building it myself. >>>> >>>>I would be using it for general stuff, trying to write programs in C,C++, and of >>>>course chess mostly my database programs and playing programs Yace,CT,Crafty >>>>etc. >>>> >>>>main reason for upgrade is any time you are compiling something and try to do >>>>something else, it gets sooooo slooooow. >>>> >>>> sign, >>>> Eriq >>> >>>I am currently in the progress of building a dual Athlon mp and i am waiting for >>>the availability of faster processors, but if i were to go ahead and buy all the >>>parts now i would get a 2x1.2 ghz Athlon mp system with 1gig ddr pc2100 ram >>>with nice graphic card, sound card, etc. For less than 1500$. I would personally >>>recommend the dual athlon, since it will be the fastest solution at a >> >>Sorry what kind of DDR ram do you plan to put inside that system? >>Because 1 gig registered DDR ram which is the only kind of ram that >>can be put inside is already pretty expensive. Mainboard $500 or something, >>processors 1.4Ghz (are also palomino core if i understand it well, though >>not sold as MPs but as 'tbirds' or whatever). >> >>I see no way how to get even close to 1500$, $3000 is more likely >> >I have purchased 4x256 pqi registered DDR PC2100 ram at the price of 200$ >The motherboard i will buy is Tiger MP (S2460) ATX which is currently priced >at 350$, the price will drop withing a month or two though. >The two Athlon mp prcessors running at 1400 mhz will be around 500$ >And the rest of the components will not be more than 400$ >so the total: 1450$ > >The prices in Denmark where i live are ridiculesly low, that might have to be >taken into concideration, i don't know the prices in other countries though. > >Regards >Jonas The price of Athlon mp 1200 mhz is 200$ so the price of the above listed system would be 1350$ if i was to go for the dual 1200 mhz. Regards Jonas
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