Author: Gordon Rattray
Date: 02:31:27 03/29/00
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On March 28, 2000 at 12:44:58, Bruce Ramsey wrote: >On March 27, 2000 at 12:26:02, Gordon Rattray wrote: > >>How much benefit can one expect by supplying more RAM for hash tables? > >Are you looking at this from the standpoint of a user of commercial chess >programs (Shredder/Fritz/Junior/Tiger/etc)? That's my slant, so my interest in >move-ordering/algorithm-internals is low. I just want to know how much it >matters to a commercial chess program to have more RAM. > >>Should it be Athalon or PIII? For the PIII, I'd be planning on a 800Mhz with >>either 384Mb RDRAM (i820 chipset) or 786Mb SDRAM (440BX chipset). > >Yeah, tomshardware.com turned me off RDRAM before I even saw the sky-high RDRAM >prices. So for the short term it looks like SDRAM. But how much RAM gets you >to the point of diminishing returns with respect to commercial chess programs? >Comments from the gurus would be welcome :-) > >Looks to me like it's either Micron with a Via chipset for the 133Mhz SDRAM, or >Gateway/Dell with 100Mhz SDRAM. > >Do any gurus have comments with respect to how much it matters to commercial >chess programs to have 133Mhz SDRAM versus 100Mhz SDRAM? > >Do any gurus have comments with respect to a Gateway Pentium versus a Gateway >Athalon (with respect to the Athalon's reputed 200Mhz bus)? > >>Hence, my original question. Especially for long time controls, should I go >>for more of the less expensive SDRAM (768Mb)? > >I too am interested in long time controls, in my case for overnight game >analysis. If maxing out on RAM does NOT help computer-computer blitz games, but >DOES help overnight analysis, then lots of RAM is interesting to me, up until >the point where it blows my budget :-) > >>Finally, can anyone recommend a retailer? I've been mainly looking at Dell and >>Gateway. > >I'd be interested in recommendations as well. I'm well aware money can be saved >by building my own system, but I'm not going to. It's going to be >Dell/Gateway/Micron/HP/IBM or some other not-bottom-tier system builder, so >comments from the gurus on such choices would be great. > >thanks, Bruce I'm looking to run commercial programs, in particular Fritz/Junior. I'll add Micron to my list of candidate retailers. Thanks for your input. Gordon
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