Author: walter irvin
Date: 06:46:46 07/04/99
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On July 04, 1999 at 07:27:34, John R. Menke, Sr. wrote: >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? you should look at the rebel homepage there you will find bench test for cyrix but when i looked at it seemed about the same as celeron , not much difference.
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