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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