Author: Aaron Gordon
Date: 18:06:33 06/22/03
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On June 22, 2003 at 20:32:37, Dan Andersson wrote: > It can't be for speed if you buy a dual machine to do chess. For a quad it's a >different matter. There you gain a little, not much. > I'd wager the perception of reliability comes in play. Curiously enough the >most problems I've had with any computer was with an all out Intel machine. Not >that it was a terrible bother. Heck, my current SMP machine is an Intel one. > I only think it would have been intersting to glean a bit about his reasons. > >MvH Dan Andersson You can also build a dual Athlon MP 3200+ (2.4ghz) barebones system (board, chips, ram, case+psu, heatsink/fans, videocard, etc) for less than the price of a single Xeon 3.06 cpu.. and the 2x3200+ would be faster. :) Gotta love it..
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