Author: Rajen Gupta
Date: 15:19:00 05/08/01
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On May 08, 2001 at 15:55:16, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: >Dear CCC, > >Should I get the machine with a combo DVD/CDRW and a 60 gibabyte hard drive? I >want to do what is right for my wife. I was thinking of the Epiq line of >machines http://www.epiqpc.com but I am not so sure about the quality. > >Then I hear that a lot of you use the full version Windows 2000 or NT. I am >told that "nps" figures are better than Windows Millennium Edition for most >compatible chess programs. > >When I get this chess machine I only want to do what is right for my wife. > > >Tim "Happily married" Frohlick > >PS My wife is not for sale. hi tim: if you are in no immediate rush, you ought to wait for a couple of months because by then dual athlon systems will be available.(you'll need ddram though)(right now the best you can get is a single athlon 1.33 or a dual pentium3 (1ghz x 2)(with a dual system you can play progs vs progs permanent brain on on a single computer or run deep shredder in all its glory!) dont think of buying now and upgrading later as the motherboard, memory, power supply case etc (in fact almost every thing will be different) also with the current low prices, 256 or even 512 ram would be worth cosidering. separate dvd rom (pioneer x 16 dvd)and cd/rw (32/12/10 burn proof)drives will be cheaper with better performance-than a combo drive as far as hard drive's are concerned unless you wife wants to store all the worlds movies on 1 drive perhaps the money saved by going in for a smaller drive (choose a 7200rpm ultra ata 100 spec) would be better spent on a larger monitor or more ram. unless your wife wants to play a lot of games win 2000 is the way to go for chess programmes-and even then you could have a dual boot with win98 and 2000 hope your wife likes this type of machine btw this machine would be ok for chess as well! rajen
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