Author: Pavel Blokhine
Date: 23:50:33 11/15/02
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On November 15, 2002 at 21:49:55, Edward Seid wrote: >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. And by the way, it was indeed a typo as the 4 GB should be 40 as in the fax they sent me. But who can i contact here if i want they to build me a monster machine?
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