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Subject: Re: Celeron Chip

Author: Micheal Cummings

Date: 20:06:57 04/11/99

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On April 11, 1999 at 21:17:46, John Wish wrote:

>How does a Celeron chip in a C.P.U. affect a Chess software's playing strength?
>How would the same software program play differently on a microchip, of the same
>megahertz frequency, that was not a celeron chip?
>
>Also, does anyone know, now that Fritz came out with a 32 bit engine, will
>Extreme Chess be following suite?

The Celeron Chips are crap. They are just cheap Intel Rubbish chips. I could not
believe when I saw the intel benchmark tests of these chips compared to their
other ones. They are shocking.

Well you get what you pay for. And Celeron Chips compared to other intel chips
and the AMD ones are rubbish. The only other chip I would never buy are the
Cyrix ones, they are on par as being a bigger joke as the Celeron chips.

So yes they do affect the performance of chess software, and you only have to
look at comparative benchmark tests to see how they would perform against other
chips.

I know they are cheap, but you get what you pay for, cheap crappy performance
and a nice price.



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