Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 13:12:58 07/05/99
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On July 05, 1999 at 09:43:40, blass uri wrote: >I read that the Celeron chip is good for chess programs but when I looked at the >list of hardware of chess programs in WCCC >I saw pentium2 and pentium3 and did not see Celerons. > >Can someone explain me what is the reason for it? > >Uri There are some Rebel10 benchmarks for AMD, Cyrix & Intel chips including the celeron at http://www.rebel.nl/bench.htm The AMD chips have a larger L1 cache. The cache is divided into 2 equal parts. The part dedicated to caching instructions is what apparently benefits chess playing programs. The theory is, since this is larger on the AMD chips, chess programs run faster. The difference between comparable chips is quite small, however. I would be guided by price.
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