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Subject: Re: The SSDf testers team could actually save time in testing program !

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 10:27:33 04/29/03

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On April 29, 2003 at 12:19:16, Günther Simon wrote:

>On April 29, 2003 at 11:38:06, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>Instead of using an Athlon 1200 GHz the SSDF team can save time by testing at
>>half the time control speed by simply upgrading their 2 years old processors to
>>an XP 2400+ or even an XP 3000+. They would save twice the time that it take
>>them to test 40 games by cutting the time control to half or instead of using
>>"40/7200:20/3600:20/3600"] they can start using "40/3600:20/1800:20/1800"]
>>
>>Jorge
>
>every year the same argument...but who buys the machines?
>
>Günther


For the sake of saving time, I would say the same person who gave the money to
upgrade from K6-500 MHz to AMD Athlon 1200 GHz could do it again. But in reality
they can upgrade them cheap, instead of buying them new.

Jorge



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