Author: Kevin Stafford
Date: 14:25:32 07/18/01
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On July 18, 2001 at 16:56:38, Pierre Bourget wrote: >I intend to buy a new computer soon and need some advices to what i should get. >This is mainly for chess and surfing the web . Athlon or Pentium Athlon. Much better price/performance ratio than the P4, IMHO. >Main board I have an Iwill board for my athlon which works quite well, but anything from Abit, Asus, or Tyan will probably do the trick just as well. Depends how interested in overclocking you are. >what kind of memory DDRAM. The price on it has dropped to the point where its worth it for the 10% or so performance increase over SDRAM. I'd get at least 256MB, 512 if you can afford it. >hard disk I'd suggest the IBM Deskstar 75GXP. If you really have the cash to spend, go for SCSI, but I don't really think its worth it unless you're building a server. >what OS work best for chess programs ? My vote would be win2k. Reasonably stable, and supports all of the commercial chess software you'd want. >Should i wait for a dual system ? If you're serious and willing to spend a hell of a lot of money, then go for it. Your only choice as far as I know right now (assuming you want to run a windows box) is a p3 dual system. The Athlon SMP chips and boards are coming soon, but the first motherboards are going to be very expensive. >I would like something really fast not only >for playing chess game (my old P200 already beat me )but also for doing >analysis. If these are your main purposes, then a single processor machine is probably all you need. For what its worth, I have an Athlon Thunderbird 1.33GHz machine with 256MB of SDRAM, and an Iwill KK266 motherboard, running Win2k. It suits my needs, and something similar would probably suit yours as well. > >Is there a chess website where i can find this kind of information ? Not that I know of, but www.anandtech.com and www.tomshardware.com are both good sites that have in-depth reviews of pc hardware. A machine that is fast for general applications will be fast for chess as well. -Kevin Stafford
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