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Subject: Re: Are Compaq AMD Business PCs as good for chess as Personal PC's?

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 08:57:13 11/15/02

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On November 15, 2002 at 03:01:00, Brian Katz wrote:

>Perhaps some of you out there can shed some light on this for me. Perhaps this
>is just a silly question, but in that case please pardon my ignorance.
>
>I was just curious as to whether or not the Compaq D 315 (Which is a business
>machine as opposed to the Presario)is just as good for chess and chessbase
>(Fritz 7 and others)as a personal PC such as the Presario. I was wondering if
>the  configuration or chipsets were any different.
>I have already ordered the Compaq D315 built to my requests....such as
>AMD Athlon 2600+
>P266 DDR RAM 1 gig)
>ATA 7200 Rpm 80 Gig Harddrive
>Just to name a few.
>
>If anyone has any opinions on this please do not hesitate to respond.
>
>Brian Katz

An Athlon is an Athlon :) Should be a spankin system; the only thing that looks
even remotely second class is the RAM (speed not size, and that won't effect you
much running a chess engine)

I've never really understood the distinction between business and personal
(except that business PCs usually do not have speakers/sound and sometimes have
SCSI)

anthony



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