Author: Andrew Williams
Date: 14:11:53 12/30/03
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On December 30, 2003 at 16:34:17, Tom Likens wrote: >On December 30, 2003 at 16:13:56, Andrew Williams wrote: > >[-snip-] > >>Hi Tom, >> >>Thanks for your kind words. It's certainly nice to be able to think about >>computer chess again after the madness of the last 12 weeks! I had made some >>progress towards PMv1008, but I'm not happy with what I've got and I've kind of >>lost the thread of what I was trying to achieve, so my next step is to roll my >>development version back to 1007 and have another go at it. So, my list of jobs >>to be completed before CCT6 looks like this: >> >>1. Roll back to v1007 >>2. Buy an EXTREMELY FAST processor and motherboard >> >>:-) >> >>Andrew > >Yeah, isn't CVS wonderful? I'm not sure how many times it has saved my bacon, >but certainly >more than once. > >I also did the faster computer thing. I bought an FX-51, but I have yet to get >the 64-bit stuff >working. The 64-bit version of SUSE can't access the Promise controller and >SATA drives that >came with it. So I need to install a "normal" IDE drives (probably this >weekend). Still, even >without taking advantage of the 64-bit features and registers the speedup was >*very* nice >(roughly 2x). Worth a few elo anyway (at the very least it shouldn't make it >weaker). Either >way CCT-6 should be fun. > >--tom OK. 2x faster is great. But 2x faster than what? I was looking at the bog-standard Athlon64 - 3200. This will be a big improvement over my Athlon 1200, but I'm not sure how much of a big improvement. Andrew
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