Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 19:05:14 06/07/03
I'm am going to build a new machine for the purpose of (mainly) running computer chess programs. What specs are important to computer chess programs? Areas I'm pretty sure about (correct me if I'm wrong): Processor speed - I think everyone agrees this is the major factor RAM - I've heard people say that SDRAM is better, then DDR, the RDRAM, because latency is more important than throughput. Areas I'm not sure about: Frontside bus speed - My first thought is that this isn't a major issue, because it sounds like it only helps the throughput. Cache - Is it better to spend the extra money to get the processors with larger caches? Go for the 512/128KB, or is 256KB ok? Hard drives - Does this matter outside of EGTBs? The prices of Athlons seem to depend a lot on FSB and cache sizes, so if a certain spec isn't very important to chess programs (ex. memory throughput), I can save some money :) Thanks for your help, Russell
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