Author: Edward Seid
Date: 18:49:55 11/15/02
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On November 15, 2002 at 09:05:33, Pavel Blokhine wrote: >HardDrive: 4 GB IDE(ATA-100)#1 inch 7.2 RPM Precision Workstation 530 I hope this was a typo and that your HD will be larger than 4 GB. It takes 7.05 GB to hold all the 3/4/5-man Nalimov endgame tables and a whole lot more if you want to try using 6-man tables. Also, before dropping this sizeable chunk of change, I would probe around a bit more in the CCC message boards. I believe there may be several persons here who can custom-build you a monster machine which would probably be both faster and cheaper. Personally, for price/performance, I would go with AMD Athlon MPs, instead of Intel. The AMD Athlon MPs are now available in 2200+ speeds. One limitation is that only the 2-CPU configuration is supported by current motherboards. Things you will want to optimize for chess performance are hard disk speed (SCSI for faster endgame table access without CPU drain), memory (yes, the quality of your memory affects speed), and of course, raw CPU power.
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