Author: Peter Kasinski
Date: 11:19:08 01/01/04
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On January 01, 2004 at 13:38:45, Russell Reagan wrote: >On January 01, 2004 at 11:31:22, Peter Kasinski wrote: > >>Thank you for your answer. I am curious about its performance (Pentium M) - the >>clock frequency is lower, it appears that HT is missing, and yet it is better >>for chess. Can you help me understand? Thank you. > >A Centrino 1.3 GHz is only slightly slower than my Athlon 2 GHz (2400+) for >running chess programs. A Centrino 1.5 GHz and 1.7 GHz will surely be faster >than an Athlon 2 GHz, so it is a good CPU to get if you can afford it. My >brother has a laptop with a Centrino, and it runs very quiet too. As for why it >is faster, I believe they basically took a PIII and gave it a longer pipeline >(which the P4 has), but the Centrino has much better branch prediction. And >there is the larger cache. A P4 may be at 3GHz, but the branch prediction isn't >as good, and with a longer pipeline, that's not a good situation. Thank you! Good information. PK
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