Building A Homemade Chess Supercomputer

nado writes "There's a new article on Chessbase.com which has GM John Nunn showing you his chess-orientated PC upgrade to a double Xeon system, with some Fritz benchmarks." Elsewhere in the article, John Nunn discusses the unique computer needs for chess computation: "One of the problems with currently available processors is that they are not particularly well suited to the integer calculations used for chess. A Pentium 4 will be slower at chess than a Pentium 3 of an equivalent clock speed."

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Use the G5!

[Tuxinatorium]

According to Apple's impending press release, each 2ghz G5 processor will deliver up to 66 gayafruits of aesthetic appeal! Didn't Kasparov say that chess is a beautiful art?!