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Subject: Re: Celeron Chip

Author: Mark Young

Date: 22:02:18 04/11/99

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On April 11, 1999 at 23:06:57, Micheal Cummings wrote:

>
>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.

I just put together a Celeron 333 to run my DVD and surround sound system for my
big screen tv. I took the time and benched some chess programs on the Celeron.
The Celeron was just as fast running Rebel as my P II 400 as well with some
other chess programs, and just as fast as a P II 333 running Fritz 5, and Junior
5.

Rebel 10 benchmark from my Celeron was 2545.

Fritz 5 scored a FM of 232, and 303 kN/s on my Celeron.

If this is crappy performance...I will take it.

Mark





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