Author: Frank Quisinsky
Date: 02:19:08 01/23/04
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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 Hi Bob, you have right but SCSI is very expensive! I have tryed difference harddisk and have the best results with Seagate Barracuda SATA. All in one (I tested 4 new harddisk, is this harddisk the fastest from the new seria by different firms). For my Dual System I use now this harddisk, have changed from Maxtor to Seagate SATA (120 Gb harddisks). Best Frank
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