Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 05:02:03 04/22/01
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On April 22, 2001 at 07:25:38, Tony Werten wrote: >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 Or is this setup outdated.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. If your rating is not over 2500 this system will beat you at least 65% of the time, if it is for chess that you are asking. Now 128 MB is also sufficient for most operating system, but you have to run your current Chess software mainly by itself with no other programs open simultaneously. Why drive a Rolls Royce when a toyota Lexus will offer the same pleasure without projecting the Super Rich STATUS. Pichard. Pichard
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