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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