Author: Charles Worthington
Date: 04:38:35 02/20/03
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On February 20, 2003 at 05:49:10, Jorge Pichard wrote: >On February 20, 2003 at 03:51:29, Daniel Clausen wrote: > >>On February 20, 2003 at 03:06:01, Jorge Pichard wrote: >> >>[snip] >> >>>>Against the PS 2 you don't need to have a Personal computer faster than 500 >>>>MHz, since the PS2 CPU speed is 295 MHz. >>> >>>PS: I meant to say that if the time allowed is equal for both then a P2 500 MHz >>>or an AMD K6 500 MHz should be sufficient against Chessmaster for the PS2. >> >>As always, MHz is not everything. A 500MHz PC will simply _kill_ a PS2-chess >>engine. Also, keep in mind, that when you run PS1-software on it, the PS2 will >>perform like the PS1 in this respect. >> He chose the dual himself actually. I think he wanted to see how CM would perform against deep fritz on a stronger machine. I did offer to use my 1.2 Celeron Laptop but he said no. I have nothing slower to play him on and relatively speaking the Celeron is pretty weak for a PC these days. Does anyone have a 500 MHz that he can test against? >>Sargon > >There are other factors to consider besides the CPU speed which is listed as 300 >MHz, but actually performs like a 295 MHz. Here take a look at the other >peripherals and compare it against an old K6-500 MHz; you wll notice that some >of its other features are compare to a super fast computer. > >http://shop.store.yahoo.com/shoptronics/sonplayps2sy.html > >CPU: >XBox: 733 MHz >PS2: 294.912 MHz > >Graphics Processor: >XBox: 233 MHz custom-designed chip, developed by Microsoft and nVidia >PS2: 147.456MHz chip > >Total Memory: >XBox: 64MB >PS2: 32MB > >Memory Bandwidth: >XBox: 6.4GB/sec >PS2: 3.2 GB/sec > >Pichard
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