Author: Lars Bremer
Date: 08:30:52 01/10/04
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Hi, >I have to buy a new OS :-(( Win2k does support HT. It handles HT as two different physical processors. WinXP can handle these virtual processors. >The biggest wish is a good Service Pack for Windows NT4 (SP7) with USB, >Directx9 >and Hyperthreading support! That's all :-) It exists and is called Windows XP >BTW: >Bob do you think that SCSI is better as S-ATA (interesting for me if I used on >two harddisk 5-pieces for engine-engine matches with ponder = on on dual Xeon. >After my first test it seems that S-ATA is just great for tablebases. Lol, SATA-drives are exactly the same as PATA-drives, there are no differences. I count them twice, believe me. Normally there is only a special chip at the drive's board to convert parallel to serial. If you want to know which kind of drive is better to store and use tablebases, you should read CSS 4/03, where I compared some different hard drives under this point of view. 15k-SCSI was the best, but it was not as fast as one could think, and modern ATA-drives are very fast too. ciao Lars
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