Author: stuart taylor
Date: 02:11:05 05/06/05
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On May 05, 2005 at 21:01:09, P. Massie wrote: >On May 05, 2005 at 17:40:23, stuart taylor wrote: > >>On May 05, 2005 at 17:35:33, Dan Andersson wrote: >> >>> What you might have missed is that the Pentium M 765 is the 'Dothan' core. The >>>same as the Pentium M 735 at 1.7 GHz. The P4 based notebook designs are not in >>>the same class. Just avoid the P4 and you'll do fine. >>> >>>MvH Dan Andersson >> >>He said (a few posts back) that the Pentium M of 1.6 or 1.7 (with 1mb of level 2 >>cache) is equivalent to about 2.4 in some other systems, but that the newer >>Centrino Dothan (with 2mb level 2 cache) is much better than that. >>S.Taylor > >I've done testing on some chess programs (Shredder9, Fritz8) on both the >original Pentium M (Banias) and the newer one (Dothan). The newer one is >clearly better simply because the clock speed is higher. Interestingly enough >(and this was a disappointment to me) the two generations of chips are pretty >equal clock for clock. That means if you want the fastest possible you should >get the 2.13ghz Dothan chip, but if you're going for a slower speed (1.7/1.8) >then the Banias chip (if still available) will give you equivalent performance >for less money. > >Paul This is incredulous! So both the Banias and Dothan are called both Pentium M and Centrino? (And Centrino is not really any faster!?) S.Taylor
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