Author: John R. Menke, Sr.
Date: 04:27:34 07/04/99
I have seen various benchmarks indicating that the Intel Pentium and Celeron processors, and the AMD processors are all reasonably OK with chess programs. Some work a little better with one or the other program, but there isn't a huge difference at a given MHz speed. You can get technical and talk about L2 cache size, bus speed, access times, etc., which I don't really understand, but the bottom line seems to be that they are all pretty much in the same "class" at a given MHz speed. [Yes, that's a very broad generalization, too broad, but you get the idea...?!] So somebody purchasing a new computer can feel fairly sure that any them are reasonably OK. But how about the Cyrix processor? I haven't seen any reports or benchmarks for it with chess software. How does it compare? Is it OK too?
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