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Subject: Re: New member with Pentium 4 2.66GHZ 533FSB - Advice welcome

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 10:14:06 07/05/03

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On July 05, 2003 at 12:35:04, Richard Patterson wrote:

>Hello to all the members, I have been out of chess for about 16+ years and a
>great deal has changed in that time.  I am building the above computer for chess
>programs only and based on what I see in the message boards this may not have
>been the best idea. I will be adding 1gb of pc2100 ram with the option to go
>with 2gb of pc2100 ram? Is it worth the extra $100 or so to go with an
>additional 1gb of ram? I also purchased the CHESSBASE 8.0 package, fritz 8,
>fritz powerbook 2003 and fritz endgame turbo.
>
>Thanks
>
>Richard

Hi Richard

1GB should be plenty - but more never hurts.  With 1Gb of ram, make sure you
update F8 as the original program had problems on some machines with 1Gb of ram
I believed.  After istalling F8, go to the playchess server, register F8 and
then query for update.

Best,

Michael



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