Syzygy questions?

[cc2150dx]

I have the 5 men syzygy bases on my HDD in a folder called 'syzygy'...So for example c:\syzygy. Is this correct?

Also, would I expect to see any slowdowns on using them on my HDD for engines like Komodo, Houdini and Stockfish?

or do I really need a SSD to put them on (which I can't really afford)?

I'm only running 1 cpu matches on my i7 quad at the moment.


Thanks,

Jason

[syzygy]

I have the 5 men syzygy bases on my HDD in a folder called 'syzygy'...So for example c:\syzygy. Is this correct?

As long as you set the SyzygyPath correctly.

Also, would I expect to see any slowdowns on using them on my HDD for engines like Komodo, Houdini and Stockfish?

You would not expect a slowdown as long as your machine has sufficient RAM to cache the WDL files. Since they are less than 400MB, this should not be a problem on modern PCs.

[cc2150dx]

Thanks Ronald.

Well, I use about 4 gigs of ram total for GUI, engines, OS and everything else..etc. which leaves me an extra 4 gigs, so I have enough ram.


Jason