Author: scott farrell
Date: 17:37:45 12/29/03
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On December 29, 2003 at 17:06:32, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote: >I am considering the possibility to build a computer for chess, for my own >program (http://www.msu.edu/~ballicor/gav). >My program is bitboard based but still uses structures of 32 bits; however, >going to 64 bits ints should be easy. So, it is very tempting to me to buy a 64 >bit AMD. What motherboard should I consider? what CPU? FX or not? Opteron? any >other hint? > >The more options you give me the better because I have to consider the price. >I would like to have something fast but I would not pay double to get 10% >increase in performance, for instance. > >Dual would be nice, because I plan to develop an SMP engine in the future, but >it might wait if it is too expensive. > >How about hard drives? any suggestion? > >Are any compilers that produce binaries that take advantage of the 64 bits? >GCC? Intel? > >If the hardware is compatible with Linux much better because I plan to use that >OS for other scientific programs. > >Thanks a lot. > >Miguel maybe some people would be nice enough to benchmark your code on their machine for you, so you can have some idea before spending $$$. Or you benchmark say the current crafty on your current machine, and compare that to other's benchmarks. I run a athlon 2500xp overclocked to 3200Xp with 400Mhz RAM. It is fast, damn fast. RAM speed _does_ make a difference, the 333mhz - 400Mhz RAM gave me about 10-15% speedup. Bandwidth doesnt matter as much as latency. A few people would contend all chess programs are memory latency bound - I agree. Scott
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