Author: Tony Werten
Date: 04:25:38 04/22/01
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On April 21, 2001 at 16:08:51, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: >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 have got to be joking. I think a 21-inch monitor costs $1600 over here (Holland) and I don't think I have ever seen a 24-inch one. Tony > >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 Or is this setup outdated.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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