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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