Author: Aaron Gordon
Date: 14:32:00 06/19/03
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On June 19, 2003 at 08:46:45, martin fierz wrote: >On June 19, 2003 at 05:10:25, Aaron Gordon wrote: > >>On June 19, 2003 at 03:55:49, martin fierz wrote: >> >>>i was just reading this computer magazine which says that the new pentium M >>>(also sold as "centrino" together with other components) is very fast compared >>>to older notebooks. does anybody have data on this (e.g. crafty benchmarks)? >>> >>>cheers >>> martin >> >>From what I've seen so far a Centrino cpu is a Pentium 3 with 1mb of L2 cache. >>The extra L2 makes no difference for chess, though. > >if this is true, how come pichard's 1.3GHz centrino runs ruffian faster than my >2.4GHz P4? > >cheers > martin Pentium 4's are much slower MHz for MHz than an Athlon or Pentium 3. This is why an old Celeron 1GHz (with a P3 style core) is the same speed as a Pentium 4 1.5GHz. An old Athlon XP 1900+ 1.6GHz is about as fast as a Pentium 4 2.8GHz in Crafty... and my Athlon XP overclocked to 2507MHz is about the speed of a Pentium 4 @ 4GHz in Crafty if a P4 such as that existed.
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