Author: Tom Likens
Date: 14:56:40 12/30/03
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On December 30, 2003 at 17:11:53, Andrew Williams wrote: >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 Oops, sorry about that, 2x faster than my Athlon 1800+ (1.53-MHz). So if you have a 1200 then the improvement should be even better. --tom
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