Author: Sam Lloyd
Date: 11:24:04 04/21/04
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On April 20, 2004 at 21:27:54, John Merlino wrote: >On April 20, 2004 at 21:06:09, Sam Lloyd wrote: > >>Video Shared Memory. >> >>I may be able to buy it for even less, at cost. >> >>Thoughtful comments appreciated. >> >>Here's the link. >> >> >>http://www.radioshack.ca/estore/Product.aspx?language=en-CA&product=2511408&category=CPUs&catalog=RadioShack >> >> >>Terry > >It really depends on what you are primarily going to be using the computer for. >If it is going to be for chess analysis, a video hardware guru coworker of mine >says that you might get anywhere between 10-20% less performance from the memory >due to what the video display is going to suck up. How badly this will affect a >chess engine overall probably depends on several factors. > >If you are going to be running anything even remotely 3D intensive (games, for >example), then the hit will be much more noticeable. > >The rest of the hardware looks very solid and reasonably priced. Compaq tends to >be pretty good stuff if you can get past all of the crap that they stick on the >hard drive before you ever touch it. > >jm Thanks to John Merlino, Dann and Dan and Ricardo for all the helpful advice! I'm not sure yet what I'll get, I may wait a bit longer, as it appears the 64 bit Athlon is coming down in price with HP and Compaq, and no shared video memory:) And of course Steven...a little humour is always nice;-) I figured shared video memory would take a hit, and it appears to be enough to be concerned about it. For chess, (The Main Purpose) isn't too bad, but 20% does look a bit ugly. For games other than chess it looks like the loss of speed could be substantial maybe 40-60% ouch! I'm running a pretty old machine, an IBM Aptiva P-III 500 with 128 SDRAM with a tiny 12Gig HD, 100MGH Bus and a lousy 8MB of Video, so it's time to seriously consider a new machine! So even the Compaq I was considering looks good!:o) Will a 64 bit Athlon boost my 32 bit ChessBase software, over a 32 bit machine at the same Gigahertz, or might I actually lose some performance? Or will it stay basically the same? All informed opinions and good advice welcomed! Terry Hoping to get a few more answers:)
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