Author: Dai Davies
Date: 18:55:34 11/18/04
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Thank you Mike. I tend to upgrade around every 4-5 years, or when the old kit starts feeling a little tired. It looks then like Athlon is preferred for all chess engines, and specificaly the A64 as I will be likely to keep this pc for several years. Out of curiosity: a database such as chessbase, which is optimised for hyper-threading, would the average search time on otherwise comparable processors, such as Athlon A64/Pentium 4 HT vary significantly in regard to the A64 not being HT Enabled? Is it perhaps a 10% region difference in search times or something far greater? Is the difference likely to be of any significance at all in Human v. Computer games? Would you know how important it is to have a hard disk with very fast access times: for instance scsi? Sorry for so many questions: just trying to get the basics straight before I order. Cheers. Mark.
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