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Subject: Re: Hardware for playing on chess servers - help needed

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 11:53:26 09/04/01

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On September 04, 2001 at 12:27:20, Aloisio Ponti Lopes wrote:

>Should I buy MSI or Abit? (Intel)

Abit has great boards, lousy support.  MSI mobo's are ok, but are a little more
user friendly.

>
>HDs SCSI or IDE ? (tablebases needed)

IDE will save you money.  SCSI is a little faster (and more expensive).
Overall, IDE is fine.  Plus, you'll just end up spending more on a SCSI
controller card.  40GB ATA100 Western Digital is sufficent (speed and size wise)
and is the _MOST_ reliable IDE drive available.  IMO.

>
>Memory?

256MB should be fine.  Hash 64MB - 128MB.  Most games on ICS's are blitz, so
64MB (hash) is fine.  Plus, memory is cheap, and something you can never get
enough of.

>
>Help please...
>
>(Ok, I don't want to get crazy building an AMD dual (as Vincent posted here)...I
>don't have the time - and money - to search for such rare components ...)

Tell me about it.  :)

>
>A. Ponti



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