Author: Gerd Isenberg
Date: 12:59:31 05/17/04
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On May 17, 2004 at 15:36:50, Drexel,Michael wrote: >On May 17, 2004 at 13:16:54, Gerd Isenberg wrote: > >>On May 17, 2004 at 11:35:10, Uri Blass wrote: >> >>>My question is what is the speed of the fastest computer that I can get for >>>movei for WCCC when the price is not more than x$ when 2000$>x$>1000$ >>> >>>I am interested both in dual and single processor options. >>> >>>I guess that I can get slower dual processor for movei for the same price but >>>the advantage is that I can do better testing with pondering so if the >>>difference in speed for movei is less than 20% then I am going to go for dual >>>processor. >>> >>>When I look at some links of dell I get the following information: >>> >>>link A: 2.4ghz intel Xeon 1973$ >>> >>>http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?cs=555&oc=WS450DPAD&m_11=WXP1&c=us&l=en&s=biz >>> >>>link B:3.2Ghz intel 1157$+120$ >>> >>>http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?cs=555&oc=D4600CPAD&m_11=WHXP&m_22=MSONO&c=us&l=en&s=biz >>> >>> >>>I have no idea which is faster and I have no idea how to get this information. >>>I also know that the p4 is not good for chess and maybe AMD is the best option. >>> >>>Uri >> >>Hi Uri, >> >>what about the ACER Aspire 1500 Notebook series with Athlon 64 3000+ CPU? >>E.g. the Aspire 1501LCe 2*256MB, 40GB HD about 1250€ here. >> >>Cheers, >>Gerd > >His best choice is probably an Athlon 64 3400+ Desktop at the moment. >Inexpensive and fast. Yes if transport is no issue. > >Acers Notebook @ 1.8 Ghz is (of course) considerably slower. >Notebooks are also slightly underclocked. >You can't change a thing in their BIOS. >The Toshiba HD in the Aspire is probably 4200 rpm. > >Michael I consider a laptop for travel purposes, e.g. Israel, Dutch Open etc. Is 3000+ real 1.8 GHz only? HD doesn't matter much for me. Gerd
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