Author: Charles L. Williams
Date: 19:58:02 05/03/99
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On May 03, 1999 at 22:51:29, Brett Clark wrote: >I'm getting ready to buy a new system (Pentium III 500 Mhz). I was trying to >decide on how much RAM to buy, so I consulted my Fritz user's manual for the >following formula on how much RAM is needed for hash tables: > >HT[KB] = 2.0*PFreq[MHz]*r[s] > >HT is the hash table size in kilobytes, PFreq is the clock speed of the >processor in MHz, and t the time available per move in seconds. > >So, for a tournament game on this system, (average of 3 minutes per move), Fritz >5.32 requires about 180MB of RAM for optimum performance! I guess that I just >answered my own question; I'd better get 256MB of RAM. > >How much RAM do the other top programs require? I would guess that a program >like Hiarchs, which is slower but better positionally than Fritz, would require >less RAM to be effective. Am I right? > >Vegas Vic, >Las Vegas, NV It's probably a good idea to get 256MB anyway. In fact, you might want to make sure they don't fill up all of the available slots, in case you want to expand later. What I mean is if the motherboard has four memory slots, get them to put in two 128s, not four 64s. Chuck
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