Author: stuart taylor
Date: 03:46:47 12/12/04
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On December 12, 2004 at 06:01:36, Ray Banks wrote: >On December 12, 2004 at 05:54:02, Frank Quisinsky wrote: > >>The most interesting chess system is since Pentium III a dual system. Much more >>interesting to look after a dual system. Believe me, you will have much more fun >>with your hobby. > >Or better still a Dual Athlon. I have 2 of them exclusively for ponder-on chess >tournaments :-) But if you also want it for gaming, or other uses, it will be >disappointing. The dual Athlon motherboards and chipsets are very dated - no >SATA, firewire, USB2 etc > >Dual Opteron would be fantastic as would a dual Xeon set-up, but horrendously >expensive > >If you want a general purpose machine (i.re. not juyt for chess) then an >Athlon64 is the way to go in my view Me too, I'm hoping to get a best general purpose machine which gives the best possible for all-round chess [esp. the top programs, and playing and analysing] within a reasonable budget (best value for money). Does this point to Athlon 64, one of the fastest (well, ALL of them are one of the fastest as there are not so many different Athlon 64's, I suppose). If that is difficult to obtain for any reason, what would be second best? S.Taylor
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