Author: Peter Kappler
Date: 07:07:54 04/12/99
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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. Actually, it's much better than you think. The early Celerons had no L2 cache, and I agree, they really sucked. But the current Celerons have 128K of L2 cache running at FULL CORE speed. They are quite nice processors - you might find that many chess programs run faster on a Celeron than a Pentium II/III at the same clock speed. Remember, the Pentium II/III has 512K of L2 cache, but it only runs at 1/2 core speed. The speed of the cache tends to matter more than the size... --Peter
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