Author: Robin Smith
Date: 12:20:31 06/07/00
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On June 07, 2000 at 10:15:48, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On June 07, 2000 at 05:16:33, Ricardo Gibert wrote: > >>On June 07, 2000 at 01:36:16, O. Veli wrote: >> >>> I am planning on building a powerful yet cheap PC for chess. AFAIK there is no >>>difference between Pentium III and Celeron chips on chess performance. A dual >>>processor version is better than a single one so a dual Celeron + Deep Junior ( >>>and of course Crafty) will have a strong Elo/$ value (Dual or quad Pentium III >>>is out of my reach). How much Elo would dual Celeron + Deep Junior gain compared >>>to single Celeron + Junior? What other things should I keep in mind on this >>>machine? Thanks. >> >>Your choice is not so simple. Consider: >> >>ABIT BP6 + 2 533 Celerons $350 >> >>ASUS K7V + 1 700 Athlon $350 > > > > >I'm not sure wht that has to do with things. IE the dual celerons are >significantly faster than the single athlon. The duals offer the ability >to do engine vs engine matches (single cpu per engine) without any funny >stuff like ponder=off, etc. > >I'd personally go for the dual Celerons, particularly since I haven't seen great >athlon results yet. > The Celeron is also more overclocker friendly and the ABIT BP6 supports a 100MHz FSB, so with a decent CPU fan you could probably get those 533's running at close to the Athlon's 700 MHz speed, but you would have 2 of them. I have have an ABIT BP6 with 2 overclocked Celerons (366's running @ 528MHz) and it works great.
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