Author: Aaron Gordon
Date: 15:44:59 01/04/03
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On January 04, 2003 at 14:59:10, Darren Rushton wrote: >I understand that a Celeron chip has a system bus of 66Mhz. Whereas a Pentium 3 >has a bus of 100 or 133MHz. > >Is the performance of Crafy sub-optimized on a Celeron chip? There are all kinds of Celeron chips. Some do actually have a 100MHz fsb. You'll want to stay away from the higher clocked Celerons (like 1.7GHz+), they are actually based on the Pentium4 core and are *EXTREMELY* slow compared to older P3 based Celerons. Look around for benchmarks, even the Celeron 2GHz overclocked to 3GHz is slower than a Celeron 1.2GHz (p3 core) at a lot of things. Especially Crafty. If you take the same core type (P3) then the fsb will make next to no difference in Crafty. A celeron-2 (p3 core) @ 1GHz w/ 100fsb will be perhaps 3kn/s slower than a P3-1GHz. This will translate to probably a 1 ELO difference or something similar thats not noticable. Now, if you use a P4 cored Celeron you're in trouble. :)
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