Author: enrico carrisco
Date: 02:12:10 06/23/02
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On June 23, 2002 at 02:55:46, Kurt Utzinger wrote: >In general AMD is faster and better for chess than Celeron. On the other hand, >with AMD you might have cooling problems, especially now in summer time. I had >to slow down my Ath 1.44 with 3 cooling fans to 1.33 in order to run Fritz & Co. >And in these very hot days [over 32°] I am working with open PC to avoid crashes >with Fritz & Co. Therefore I would recommend you to buy a Celeron with >Tualatin-Core with 256 KB cache. You will never have heating problems with this >fine CPU. Proberly running AMD Athlon need good cool systems and are then of >course working rather loud. Hence, I will never again buy an AMD, even if Intel >CPU's are slower for chess. >Kurt So in a nutshell, you chose a poor cooling method and to make matters worse, overclocked the cpu. I am not surprised you are displeased. I have an XP1900 running at 1.76GHz (@ 1.95 volt), air-cooled with a Thermalright SK6. Runs solid summer or winter. This is a $39.99 fan. A Celeron 1.3GHz would be lightyears behind this processor for chess applications. It's been a known fact since the K5's that AMD's run hot. If you choose an efficient cooling method, this is not a problem -- especially if you don't overclock. -elc.
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