Author: Jonas Cohonas
Date: 14:55:50 07/18/01
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On July 18, 2001 at 17:25:32, Kevin Stafford wrote: >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 I can only second the above, well put Kevin, i have an athlon 1.3ghz 1024 ram Asus a7v MB Windows 98se and i am waiting for the Dual MB's for Athlon and for the AtlonMP processors to hit atleast 1.4ghz before buying the dual athlon, which should be in the price range 800-1500 bucks(for the whole system) depending on where you live and if you are prepared to build it yourself, which is what i will do, oh and win2k is a good idea too when running a dual system :-) I am going to order that next month aprox. 200 bucks!! Regards Jonas
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