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Subject: Re: Best price/efficiency hardware for Chess Programs Today

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 11:45:59 05/10/01

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On May 10, 2001 at 12:29:56, Manuel Rodriguez Blanco wrote:

>
>Hi, i am looking for advice about wich is the best procesor/board/chipset/ram,
>take in count prices, for run chess programs?
>
>
>I think a good procesor is AMD Thunderbird 1333Mhz for about US240.00
>I am not sure wich board/chipset is better from VIA KT266 or AMD760.
>I am not sure wich is the corret Memory soluction too (DDR or SDRAM)

Look at the cost of multiple CPU computers.

We recently got some dual PIII 930 MHz machines for $1700.  256 megs ram (I'd
get more, personally) and 80 gigs HD (IIRC).  The cost of adding the second CPU
was only 300 or so, and the boost in compute power is substantial.  In addition,
the actual operation of dual CPU systems is much more pleasant.  You can have
one task completely jug a CPU and the second CPU is still completely free to do
other things.

Just some thoughts.



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