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Subject: Re: Centrino

Author: P. Massie

Date: 09:36:01 08/31/03

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On August 31, 2003 at 11:24:31, Aaron Gordon wrote:

>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.

I got a Fritzmark of 1135 using 95MB of hash on a Centrino 1.5 ghz.  Based on my
comparison of two PIV's I have (1.8 and 2.0) that seems roughly equivalent to a
PIV running at about 2.8 ghz.  So the salesman's claim seems reasonable.

Paul

Paul



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