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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