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Subject: Re: Quad Opteron can be ordered from Einux

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 11:39:57 07/23/03

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On July 23, 2003 at 13:47:55, Michael P. Nance Sr. wrote:

>On July 23, 2003 at 06:34:53, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>This Quad Opteron performs similar to an Intel 8 way 900 MHz but it cost several
>>thousands less.
>>
>>http://www.einux.com/config/tab.php?model=A4840&table=aserv
>
>Well I think I'm still going to wait for AMD to release Thier 246(2 Ghz) Chips.
>If I'm spending that much on a Multi-Processors Opteron I want it to be the the
>Top Dog where ever I play at.  Besides, I don't think windows Server 2003 (64
>bit)will be out till about X-mas.  By that time, I'm sure most of the
>Programmers that have a Program that ranks high on the SSDF list,will have a
>revised 64 bit version out.  While on the Subject:how much ram is too much?  I
>had a price quoted to Me from Monarch for a Dual Opteron,and the,Motherboard
>would hold up to 12 Gigs of memory.I asked for only 4 gigs of ram.  I'm only
>purchasing this system to play Chess Programs with .  In Your opinions how much
>Ram am I going to need?  And how much would be overkill?  Let Me hear Your
>opinions on this Multi-Processing Opteron system.  >>>>Mike

As you can see three Gigabytes of Memory should be sufficient, just like in Deep
Junior vs Kasparov match:

There were conflicting reports about the hardware. We were using the
four-processor machine with 1.9 GHz Pentium 4 processors. It had an effective
three gigabytes of memory, and all tablebases were installed although never
accessed. We never had a single crash, never rebooted once.






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