Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 14:30:46 01/29/03
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On January 29, 2003 at 14:46:15, Darren Rushton wrote: >Can anyone give me an expert view on whether the performance of Crafty would be >sub-optimized on a Celeron 433MHz processor. > >Someone over at the Winboard forum advised that it had something to do with the >fact that a Celeron 433MHz chip only has a 66MHz serial bus, whereas a Pentium 3 >chip has a 133MHz serial bus. > >I don't understand this technical jargon and why this would influence Crafty's >playing ability in relation to, say, Francesca. Any explanations would be >gratefully received. > >Darren Early Celerons were dogs. They had zero L2 cache. Later celerons came with a cache that was actually better than the normal pentium II processors they competed with. It should work fine, although it is certainly slow by today's standards...
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