Author: Peter Herttrich
Date: 01:53:27 12/23/97
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On December 22, 1997 at 17:07:22, Rajen Gupta wrote: >I am planning to buy a new computer so Iwould be grateful for some >answers. does the TX chipset limit the cacheable RAM to 64MB. >Does a ultrawide SCSI disk eg SEAgate Cheetah or Barracuda improve the >performance of the computer when playing chess esp programme vs >programme on the same computer? Yes, the TX limits the cachable area to 64 MBytes. If You have a board with SDRAMS (DIMM), You can nealy eliminate this problem. The SDRAMS are very fast and You can use more then 64MB. The older HX-Chipset did not have this problem, but this one has no SDRAM-Support. A SCSI-Disk is always the right choice for a good PC. But i guess it makes no really difference while playing chess. Using much RAM (for the hashtables) improoves the system more. BTW the AMD/K6 is a very good chess-processor ;-) Peter
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