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Subject: Re: Which programs require the Most/Least amount of Ram?

Author: David Blackman

Date: 00:04:02 12/15/00

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On December 14, 2000 at 07:03:04, Garry Evans wrote:

>The Reason I ask is because of my recent problems with running chess programs on
>my new Athlon 850 chip, it appears that I may have some bad Ram, I notice that
>fritz crashes after about five minutes, whereas shredder stays up for about 30
>minutes before it crashes. I have troubleshooting the problem and have
>eliminated some possible causes, now I am left with the memory issue. Still i
>don;'t see why "only" Chess programs Crash and nothingelse! Just my luck that
>the most important software on my computer just happens not to want to act
>right!

Might be bad RAM. Might be overheating. Athlons need very good cooling systems,
and some of the cheaper systems just aren't good enough. All of this gets worse
if you are overclocking. Chess, of course will have the CPU working hard, which
will make it run hotter. Not many other programs you run will do this.



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