Author: Peter Kappler
Date: 07:10:08 04/12/99
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On April 12, 1999 at 01:20:31, Micheal Cummings wrote: > >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 You're wrong. The Celeron is the most popular CPU in the gaming community right now. See my previous post about the old vs. new Celerons. --Peter
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