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Subject: Re: Hardware for WCCC

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:51:10 08/14/05

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On August 14, 2005 at 11:11:21, Jürgen Ecker wrote:

>Hi Joseph,
>
>the tournament organizers will provide interested participants Dell Optiplex
>GX280 computers to run their chess programs during the tournament. The computers
>are equipped with an Intel P4 3.0GHz CPU and 1GB of RAM. The Windows XP
>operating system will be preinstalled on all the computers.
>
>http://www.ru.is/wccc05/default.asp?Page=Notepad&ID=3
>
>
>Jürgen Ecker
>Admin CSS Online
>http://www.computerschach.de

But who would want to use 2 year old technology, particularly when AMD offers
single-cpu boxes that are twice as fast, and dual-core boxes that are 4x as fast
(for a single dual-core opteron)...

Many (most) are not using local hardware because it is hopelessly outdated.



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