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Subject: Re: Celeron Chip

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 22:13:23 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 older Celerons were slow, but the newer Celerons (300A, 333, and up) are
quite good, and very overclockable.  Price/performance is amazing, especially
with this latter factor taken into account.

You can get the latest goods on this sort of thing at www.tomshardware.com.

Dave Gomboc



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