Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 22:16:10 06/07/03
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On June 08, 2003 at 00:52:54, Ryan B. wrote: >What programs and what price range you looking at? I'm sure crafty would run >great on a Sun Blade 150 and the price is rather reasonable. >http://store.sun.com/catalog/doc/BrowsePage.jhtml?catid=85825 If your looking >for the best price to performance ratio I think AMD is the front-runner. But >I?m not much of a fan for Intels high-end prices on low-end hardware, just my >opinion though. I am looking to get a second computer so that I can run computer vs. computer matches on one and do my work on the other. Currently I have a dual PIII 733, and I can't work very well while two engines are eating up both cpus. It would be cheaper to get a new single cpu Athlon to do my work on, and use my dual for comp-comp games. The other way around (getting a new dual) doesn't make as much sense, since my program doesn't support multiple cpus, and I want the faster one to be used for my own program to play online. I could build a decent Athlon system for around $400 or so, and that would be good enough for developing and playing my program online, and then I could run my engine-engine matches by letting my dual run for days :) My program uses rotated bitboards (at least for now), but it's not the big implementation that I usually see (512 KB tables). My tables only take up 64 KB, so it would probably be beneficial to have the extra cache (512 KB), but not a HUGE cache like the 8MB of some Sun machines.
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