Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 05:16:05 11/30/99
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On November 30, 1999 at 00:09:05, Will Singleton wrote: except for rebel on laptops the fastest processor you can get is the celeron relatively comparing Mhzes. near to every program is faster on celeron than the other 2 processors. after that majority of the assembler programs are fast on K6 and finally you have PIII and PII at the same speed. P5 is rather outdated >On November 29, 1999 at 23:08:30, Dennis A. Bourgerie wrote: > >>I am thinking about buying a notebook computer. There are different kinds of >>processors on the market, for example, Celeron, K6-2, K6-3, Pentium, Pentium II, >>Pentium III. I would like to get a notebook that can efficiently run Rebel 10 >>or Fritz or other chess programs. >> My question is: If the processors were to be ranked from best to worst how >>would the list go? Also what other factors (maybe RAM or secondary cache) are >>the most important for getting good results from a chess program? > >Some chess programs perform better on the AMD, some on the Pentium. But the >difference isn't huge. As far as ram goes, once you get above 128mb, there's >not much point in adding more. As long as you're talking about systems < $3000, >then it doesn't make much difference. Just get the highest mhz. > >Will
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