Author: Micheal Cummings
Date: 22:20:31 04/11/99
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On April 12, 1999 at 01:02:18, Mark Young wrote: >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 Mark maybe for chess programs like Bruse wrote in another post they might work fine. But a PII400 and the Celeron 333 are not even in the same ball park. So maybe for chess it is okay, but for graphics and other high application programs, no way
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