Author: Gordon Rattray
Date: 02:39:59 03/29/00
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On March 28, 2000 at 13:32:06, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >On March 28, 2000 at 12:44:58, Bruce Ramsey wrote: > >>Do any gurus have comments with respect to how much it matters to commercial >>chess programs to have 133Mhz SDRAM versus 100Mhz SDRAM? > >I haven't run any experiments, but my guess is that it doesn't matter at all. >Most chess programs only make a handful of random memory accesses per node >(sometimes less). So memory is definitely not the "bottlenecking" component. > >>Do any gurus have comments with respect to a Gateway Pentium versus a Gateway >>Athalon (with respect to the Athalon's reputed 200Mhz bus)? > >I don't think the bus speed matters, if it's faster than the RAM speed. >(Assuming single processor.) > >>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. > >I don't think you can save very much money by building your own computer >anymore. Around 10 years ago, you could have saved a ton, but these days the >profit margins are pretty small. Another factor is that the big-name vendors get >some pretty sweet deals on components, which they can pass along. Sometimes I >run across people who claim to have saved a lot by building their own computer, >but they almost always used crap components. I build my own computers, but only >because I have half the parts already anyway. > >I've had good experience with Micron. I know several people who have had bad >experiences with Dell. > >-Tom Thanks for the advice. Gordon
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