Hello,
Hopefully you guys can help me:
A friend of mine wants to get a new PC. He only uses it for chess analytics. We build his last PC together. At that time we didn't buy a gpu since all the computing was done buy the CPU. This seem to have changed some engines like lc0 hugly benefit from gpu computing.
We have a budget for ~1000€
We thought about getting a ryzen 9 3900xt
and a Nvidia gtx 1660
Would you agree with our decision or would you recommend something else?
Rest of the money goes to a fast ssd, some fast ram, casing, tpu etc
Thanks for helping me out I'm a bit clueless when it comes to the requirements for chess programs
Good day Fabian
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Hello Fabian,
I just finished building a PC mainly used for chess-analysis.
I have a ryzen 9 3900xt and a RTX 2070 super in it. The ryzen I can recommend very much. The RTX 2070 I would not buy again. It is expensive and gets loud without special cooling. Also it fills the Ram (of the PC) pretty quick. After 1 hour analysis with Lz0 8 GB are filled and it stops analyzing. Now I have 16 GB in the new machine, but that also does not prolong analysis-time forever. For analysis in correspondence chess I rely much more on stockfish 12 using 20 cores than on Lc0, which comes up with interesting suggestions in the middle-game, but plays often a weak endgame.
I hope this helps with your decisions...
Gerhard
I just finished building a PC mainly used for chess-analysis.
I have a ryzen 9 3900xt and a RTX 2070 super in it. The ryzen I can recommend very much. The RTX 2070 I would not buy again. It is expensive and gets loud without special cooling. Also it fills the Ram (of the PC) pretty quick. After 1 hour analysis with Lz0 8 GB are filled and it stops analyzing. Now I have 16 GB in the new machine, but that also does not prolong analysis-time forever. For analysis in correspondence chess I rely much more on stockfish 12 using 20 cores than on Lc0, which comes up with interesting suggestions in the middle-game, but plays often a weak endgame.
I hope this helps with your decisions...
Gerhard
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