Author: Brett Clark
Date: 19:51:29 05/03/99
I'm getting ready to buy a new system (Pentium III 500 Mhz). I was trying to decide on how much RAM to buy, so I consulted my Fritz user's manual for the following formula on how much RAM is needed for hash tables: HT[KB] = 2.0*PFreq[MHz]*r[s] HT is the hash table size in kilobytes, PFreq is the clock speed of the processor in MHz, and t the time available per move in seconds. So, for a tournament game on this system, (average of 3 minutes per move), Fritz 5.32 requires about 180MB of RAM for optimum performance! I guess that I just answered my own question; I'd better get 256MB of RAM. How much RAM do the other top programs require? I would guess that a program like Hiarchs, which is slower but better positionally than Fritz, would require less RAM to be effective. Am I right? Vegas Vic, Las Vegas, NV
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