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Subject: Re: Centrino

Author: Aaron Gordon

Date: 08:24:31 08/31/03

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On August 31, 2003 at 09:53:32, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On August 31, 2003 at 09:46:00, Ricardo Gibert wrote:
>
>>On August 31, 2003 at 03:22:52, Jeroen Noomen wrote:
>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>When looking at the notebook market, I see more and more
>>>systems with the Intel Centrino processor. Ranging from
>>>1,3 GHz to 1,7 GHz. Up till now nobody could tell me the
>>>difference in speed between the Centrino and the 'regular'
>>>P4, or the AMD 2700 and up.
>>>
>>>One salesman told me that the 1,3 GHz Centrino is comparable
>>>to the P4 2,4 GHz. Does anybody know more about this? How
>>>good is the 1,7 GHz Centrino? Do we have some Fritz marks
>>>on these new guys? Are they good for chess programs?
>>>
>>>Thanks for your comments!
>>>
>>>Best wishes, Jeroen
>>
>>I have a 1.3 Ghz centrino laptop. I reported here on CCC roughly 1 million NPS
>>running Ruffian. Someone else with a PIV reported that this was equivalent to a
>>2.4 Ghz PIV, so the salesman's assessment is in agreement. With different
>>applications, this rough equivalency can be expected to vary of course.
>
>My Athlon 2400+ (2GHz) gets roughly 1Mnps from the opening position, and up to
>about 1.3+ Mnps in the endgame with Ruffian. This sounds similar to Centrino
>1.3GHz. I imagine the 1.7GHz chip would perform very nicely.

In Crafty the Centrino 1.6GHz is identical to an Athlon 1.6GHz speed-wise. I
compared my system clocked down to 1.6GHz and compared them with numbers from
Sean Mintz.




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