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Subject: Re: fastest processor for computerchess

Author: margolies,marc

Date: 20:03:32 01/22/04

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I might do that doc, but i have cheap glands that are pumping full throttle
after the couple of dozen expensive recommendations. I also want to get
everything I need into a small (-ish) box without alot of cooling and noise
problems.
In the system which I am building for myself currently, I will boot on a SATA
but if I need to access alot of TBs I'd prolly add a good SCSI card and truck.
However, my tendencies as they exist involve analysis of early middlegame
positions, so I am still not sure I have to go there and spend that yet ( SCSI
for fastest TB Access).


On January 22, 2004 at 22:40:25, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On January 22, 2004 at 22:36:23, margolies,marc wrote:
>
>>when ever I throw out an old cpu, they all hit the earth at
>>9.8meters-persecond**2 so none are any faster than that.
>>The best single processor that I can think of is a 2.2 ghz 64 bit athlon opteron
>>for about 800 US dollars. That's because it has the widest datapath and can use
>>some of the lowest latency memory available. Each gigabyte of CAS 2.0 memory
>>will also set you back another 800 bucks. The chipsets that server this opteron,
>>particularly the NVidia NF3 NP150 Pro chipset, can handle 8 gigabytes of ram on
>>the mainboard, that is provided you use only 2gigabyte DDR cards which cost
>>about one thousand eight hundred dollars each.
>>And dont put your data to be accessed on a slow hard drive either. A ten
>>thousand speed rotating SATA (150gb throughput) drive with 78 gigabytes of
>>storage costs only between 250 and 300 USD.
>
>You were doing good until you got to the SATA drive.  Throw it away and
>get a 15K U320 SCSI drive...
>
>
>>in short, neither of your choices is the fastest processing engine for chess,
>>but if i had to bet on one of them generically -- that is without specifying
>>which chess engine is to be run on it-- I may chose the AMD 3000. Would that you
>>meant to run Fritz8 I might change sides to the P4.
>>
>>
>>On January 22, 2004 at 21:30:37, Lars Berglund wrote:
>>
>>>What is the fastest processor for computerchess.
>>>AMD Athlon 3000+ or Pentium 4 3.0 ghz



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