Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 10:31:58 05/04/99
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On May 03, 1999 at 22:58:02, Charles L. Williams wrote: >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 Considering that RAM almost never fails, you might consider just getting a single 256MB piece. Of course, your mainboard must support 1 GB of ram or greater for that to work. There is only a benefit in this if you can envision putting in a gig of RAM at some future point. Dave
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