Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: To Slater Wold == 2x1.73Ghz cost US$????

Author: Yen Art Tham

Date: 12:10:00 08/15/02

Go up one level in this thread


On August 15, 2002 at 07:42:06, Slater Wold wrote:

>On August 15, 2002 at 02:45:16, Stuzzi Kadent wrote:
>
>>Slater, I think you are overestimating the price by overspecifying and counting
>>things the guy would not need for his stated purpose. I am sure he doesn't need
>>a lot of what you have in your own system. One thing I am curious about is why
>>the need for so much memory and SCSI disks also. If it is to do with tablebases,
>>does your main program read them from disk or can it load them into memory, or
>>is either to do with another task primarily.
>
>Why not?
>
>>I guess the job could be done closer to $1000 with savvy and cutting exorbitant
>>codpiece-filling specifications down.
>
>I doubt it.  2 CPUs + motherboard + memory + shipping and you're at $1,000.  You
>still need a case, floppy drive, etc, etc.


Slater, Are your RAM memory registered? Can unregistered memory
be used?



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.