Author: William Penn
Date: 06:15:34 06/18/04
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On June 17, 2004 at 19:23:56, BubbleGum1 wrote: > I have a 2.8 gig celeron 500 mhz of ram how much faster is it than the ssdf >hardware(in general of course)? Based on my tests with a 2.4G Celeron system last summer, in comparison with my former 500MHz Celeron on an older W98 system, and then my current 2.0G AMD Athlon XP 2400+: The new Celeron speeds are deceptive. As a rule of thumb they're actually only about half as fast as the Gigahertz number indicates - for chess calculation purposes. So your 2.8G Celeron is really only about 1.4G in comparison to the old 500MHz Celerons, i.e. roughly 3x as fast as a 500MHz Celeron processor. Then enter the AMD processors... My 2.0G AMD Athlon XP 2400+ processor is twice as fast as the 2.4G Celeron which I tried last summer, when using software like Fritz 8 and Shredder 8 for the benchmarks. So to answer your original question, how much faster is your 2.8G Celeron vs the SSDF hardware? I would guess - not very much. It might be perhaps 25% faster based on my rules of thumb. Forget the Celerons. Get an AMD. -WP
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