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Subject: Re: There are other factors to consider besides the CPU speed.

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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