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Subject: Re: Memory vs. Processor Speed.

Author: J. Wesley Cleveland

Date: 13:33:34 01/09/99

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On January 08, 1999 at 17:17:10, al blanco wrote:

>Dear Members:
>
>Can anyone explain to me how these two hardware components can affect the
>performance of a chess program on a Pentium based computer. Which one is
>more important and why. How much memory should I have on my P200 to get the
>most out of any chess program.
>
>Thank you for your anticipated kind response.

It depends on what you are doing. If you are playing blitz games, 32 meg is
probably enough as 5 sec would not fill a larger hash table, and faster
processors will play stronger. If you are doing overnight analyses, especially
of endgames, as much memory as possible will help a lot, perhaps more than
faster processors.



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