Author: Tony Hedlund
Date: 04:05:07 11/13/05
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On November 12, 2005 at 11:24:12, Per Jørgensen wrote: >Hi Tony Hedlund! > >Thanks for all the results you are posting to this Forum. Making computermatches >on the classic Tournamenttime (40/2 + 1 hour for the next 20 and so on) is a >demanding task. I, myself, used to test for SSDF many years ago at a time where >Mach 3, Mega 04 and so on were important computers. Today it is much easier to >test with the PC's because you don't have to physically make the moves. > >The reason I'm writing to you is that I would like to know if SSDF are >considering to test on a new Hardware. An AMD Athlon 1200 is ofcourse an >excellent PC but compared to up-dated Hardware it is quite slow. In addition, >several modern Engines require a modern Hardware to perform their maximum. >Recently I had to buy a new CPU (Athlon 64 4000+) because I discovered that >Fritz 9 needed more than 256 kb Level 2 Cache (which my old Sempron 2800+ CPU >could offer) to perform at its maximum (at least on my timelevel; I'm testing >5+5). So, there are several reasons to make an Hardware-update but there are >ofcourse also financial concerns to be taken. > >Best regards >Per Jørgensen Hi Per, For the moment we are not considering to update. But I'm aware that the minimum system requierement are reaching our level. I had to buy a DVD-drive to install Fritz 9. Best Tony
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