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Subject: Re: Pentium 3 vs. Pentium with Xeon: Bob Hyatt please :)

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 14:55:30 08/08/99

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On August 08, 1999 at 13:20:12, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On August 07, 1999 at 10:13:54, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On August 07, 1999 at 09:02:33, Randy Schmidt wrote:
>>
>>>Bob,
>>>
>>>I understand that chess analysis is mostly integer
>>>arithmetic.  Would this mean that the Celeron proc
>>>is better?  I refer to the L2 post earlier....where
>>>it appeared the Celeron was "fastest".
>>>
>>>THANKS!
>>
>>
>>The Celeron has looked very good in reports from others.  I've said
>>several times that the best deal you can get is probably a dual celeron
>>machine...
>>
>
>CELERON is indeed a great processor. To my big surprise is
>a 450Mhz celeron nowadays 7.2% faster for DIEP.
>
>when running parallel version of DIEP, this one is still faster
>than the PII, but less than 5%.
>
>this is quite weird considering that about a year ago celeron
>was a lot slower for DIEP. At that time my datastructure was
>smaller as it was 8 bits mainly. Right now everything is 32 bits.
>
>For crafty celeron is about 10% faster.
>
>>cheap _and_ fast...
>
>indeed, hard to compete with for AMD!


also don't forget that the first celeron's had _no_ L2 cache.  Newer ones all
have 128kb of fast L2 cache, which makes a big difference...



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