Author: Jonas Cohonas
Date: 06:03:44 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 $1600 over here >(Holland) and I don't think I have ever seen a 24-inch one. > >Tony > >> >>You did well in buying your present system and it should give you many years of >>use. >> >>Sincerely, >> >>Tim Frohlick >> >>On April 21, 2001 at 14:33:58, Sergey pavov wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi >>> >>> I just upgraded to a athlon thunderbird 1000 with 128mb ram. My question is by >>>todays standards is this considered fair hardware? Or is this setup outdated. >>>Excuse my ignorance I am not very computer saavy. At zitech you can get 72-inch monitors for around 15000$ Regards Jonas
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