Thanks Frank and Øystein, I'll see what I can find that's got a decent number of cores and is within budget.
Is it still just rollouts that use multiple cores? Has the evaluation code been refactored to take advantage of parallel processing? Cheers, Ian On Wed, 11 Jun 2025 at 21:09, Frank Berger <fr...@bgblitz.com> wrote: > Hi Ian, > > > I need to buy a new PC. Aside from the usual browsing, word processing > > watching streaming, the only heavy use I'm likely to give it is > backgammon > > rollouts. > > > > Assuming that cores and processor speed are still the main drivers of > > performance, does anybody have any recommendations for a moderate spec > > set-up? I've not kept up to date with the processor world. > > > any moderate fast PC will do. I would only strongly recommend against a > separate GPU. The latency until the (little) data reached the GPU is so > high that the CPU has already computed it. > It is a bit different for a fast integrated GPU (e.g. M4 from Apple, or > Ryzen AI ) but the effect is optimistically 15-20% if perfectly supported. > > A Ryzen 6 9600(x), 16 BG Memory and 1 TB SSD, a 350-450 Watt power supply > is probably a reasonable choice. If you want to spend a little more a Ryzen > 9700x is *pretty* fast and still reasonable priced. A Ryzen 9 9900X or > 9950X is very fast, but unless time is very critical I wouldn’t recommend > it. > Depending on your noise tolerance a bigger case is more silent than a > small device but that might fit behind your monitor... > > > > best > Frank >
