Author: Will Willis
Date: 10:48:24 10/23/97
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Basically get the best that you can afford. For chess programs you
won't need a high end graphics card, a 2MB card should suffice. You can
save money by buying AMD rather than Intel for the processor, but I
would avoid Cyrix due to a number of posts about incompatibility
problems. If you have the extra money go with the 266, otherwise the
233 seems to be the "sweet spot" at the moment. Ram...as much as you
can afford. It's dirt cheap right now, I've seen 32MB EDO SIMM's going
for $80 which is what 16MB cost a few months ago. Definitely go for
64MB of RAM if you can. Hard drive is again whatever you can afford, it
seems that 3.2GB or so is the current average IDE drive, with about
2.1GB as the smallest I've seen available recently. More space will
allow you to have more endgame tablebases and larger opening books
installed on your system. Pretty common sense stuff, but to recap if I
was building a machine right now for what you want I'd go with:
AMD K6-233
64MB RAM
3-4GB hard drive
2MB video card
512K pipeline burst cache
16x cdrom drive (not significantly more expensive than an 8x or 12x)
<--Will-->
On October 22, 1997 at 10:47:57, Antonio Palma wrote:
>I am changing computer and i use the following chess programs :
>
>Crafty (with huge opening tree)
>Fritz
>Hiarcs (module for fritz)
>Rebel
>Genius 5.0
>Chessbase
>
>any advice on processor (AMD or INTEL) ?
> RAM (DIMM or EDO) ?
> Hard DISK ?
> Graphic card ?
>
>other advice?
>
>
>Regards
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