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Subject: Re: How would this cut it as a Chess PC?

Author: Mark Rawlings

Date: 15:22:41 01/27/06

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On January 27, 2006 at 11:10:35, Tony West wrote:

>This would be a nice computer by any means.  But personally, I would spend a few
>more dollars and get an Athlon 64 x2 4600 dual core equiped computer.

Do they have any off the shelf systems with the 64 x2 4600?  I couldn't find any
at BestBuy, CompUSA, etc.  I guess HP, Gateway, etc. should be coming out with
4600 or 4800 systems soon.

I ran my program (written in QuickBasic) on the 64 x2 4200 at the store and it
isn't really any faster than on my Athlon XP 2800 from a couple years ago (2.13
clock speed vs. 2.2)  So much for Moore's Law. :-)  and trying to convert my
program to a nmultiprocessor version is way beyond my abilities.

Anyway, the Gateway system from the original post does look nice!

Mark



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