Author: Peter Stayne
Date: 20:51:59 05/07/03
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if you currently have 93mb of ram, I would wager that you have an OLD computer of probably the early P2 era. if i were in your position, i would save the cash for a new motherboard/cpu/ram combo. we'd be talking hundreds of ratings points difference then. 32 MB of RAM is fine for all but the fastest machines in blitz settings. for longer games, I would go with 64, and super long, probably around 128mb of hash. anything more than you need will actually slow the engine down by a hair and lose you maybe 10 elo points. more important to the amount of ram is the speed of ram. you most likely have pc66 or pc100 RAM. even most older machines have pc133 or DDR memory which is twice as fast (up to 800MHz on the upcoming Pentium 4's). Speed up the memory speeds and opening books, hashes and tablebases will be searched faster and make the engine's life a lot easier.
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