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Subject: Re: Is this considered Fair hardware?

Author: Timothy J. Frohlick

Date: 13:08:51 04/21/01

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Sergey,

It is entry level but more than adequate for computer chess.  A full system now
would be an AMD Athlon 1.4 or 1.5 Ghz with a 266 Mhz front side bus and 256 to
512 Mb DDR memory with a 60 to 85 Gbyte hard drive and both CDRW and DVD ROM
drives coupled to a nice 64 Mbyte video card.  Married to a nice 21 to 24 inch
monitor you would feel like you were driving a Rolls Royce Corniche or a
Mercedes 600 SL.  A nice sound card with front and rear surround speakers would
be great for movies and games.  You can get such systems for under $1600.00 in
the U.S. .  Just look in the May edition of computer shopper.

You did well in buying your present system and it should give you many years of
use.

Sincerely,

Tim Frohlick

On April 21, 2001 at 14:33:58, Sergey pavov wrote:

>
>  Hi
>
>  I just upgraded to a athlon thunderbird 1000 with 128mb ram. My question is by
>todays standards is this considered fair hardware? Or is this setup outdated.
>Excuse my ignorance I am not very computer saavy.



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