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Subject: Re: Are Compaq AMD Business PCs as good for chess as Personal PC's?

Author: Brian Katz

Date: 11:29:58 11/15/02

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On November 15, 2002 at 08:58:19, Brian Katz wrote:

>On November 15, 2002 at 07:44:42, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>On November 15, 2002 at 03:01:00, Brian Katz wrote:
>>
>>>Perhaps some of you out there can shed some light on this for me. Perhaps this
>>>is just a silly question, but in that case please pardon my ignorance.
>>>
>>>I was just curious as to whether or not the Compaq D 315 (Which is a business
>>>machine as opposed to the Presario)is just as good for chess and chessbase
>>>(Fritz 7 and others)as a personal PC such as the Presario. I was wondering if
>>>the  configuration or chipsets were any different.
>>>I have already ordered the Compaq D315 built to my requests....such as
>>>AMD Athlon 2600+
>>>P266 DDR RAM 1 gig)
>>>ATA 7200 Rpm 80 Gig Harddrive
>>>Just to name a few.
>>>
>>>If anyone has any opinions on this please do not hesitate to respond.
>>>
>>>Brian Katz
>
>
>>
>>I don't foresee any difference. How much did it cost you ?
>>
>>Pichard.
>
>
>Thank you for your reply.
>The total without tax and shipping, which includes the monitor and printer came
>to $1913.00.
>Of course I included a DVD writer and an additional 768 MB of DDR RAM.
>Without the printer and monitor the total comes to $1610.00
>If I knocked down the DDR RAM to 256 MB it would come to $1360.00 and if I took
>Windows XP Home rather than Windows XP Professional, it would be $1260.00.
>
>If I just ordered the bare bones Compaq D315 (Athlon 2000+)system it would have
>come to $549.00 and $799.00 with the Athlon 2600+.
>In the meantime some of the items are back-ordered, so I am anxiosly waiting and
>still using my Hewlett Packard 8370 Pentium II 350 MHz 384 SDRAM.
>Regards Brian

I thought the RAM was up to par   PC 2100 266 FSB
Please explain

Regards Brian Katz




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