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Subject: Re: What is the difference between a Celeron and a PIII, chesswise?

Author: Derek Bays

Date: 13:00:53 07/02/99

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On July 01, 1999 at 19:34:30, Robin Smith wrote:

>A Celeron running at both the same processor and memory bus speeds should be
>about the same for chess as a P III at the same clock speed.  For small, fast
>programs like Fritz the Celeron even has a slight edge due to it's full speed
>cache.
>
>A really good, fairly inexpensive chess computer can be made by taking a 300A
>Celeron and over-clocking to the equivalent of 450 Mhz.  I have successfully
>built 3 such machines and every one over-clocked just fine.
>
>For slow search, large knowledge programs the bigger cache size of the AMD
>processor is probably the best.


Hello Mr. Smith, What type of motherboard were you using with your Celerons?
I am ordering an ASUS P2-99B and I will attempt to overclock my 366A to
400+ MHZ any suggestions as to mainboards or settings?

Thanks in advance, -Derek



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