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Subject: Re: Intel = over cycled and over-hyped

Author: P. Massie

Date: 13:59:41 01/23/04

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I did benchmarks with Hiarcs8 and Fritz8 on a P4 3.0 vs. a Centrino 1.6.  The
results were really close, with the Centrino very slightly slower.  A Centrino
1.7 would certainly be as fast or faster than a P4 3.0.

Paul


On January 23, 2004 at 14:53:17, Kevin Heider wrote:

>Maxdata (4200x) Pentium IV Mobile 2.67 with HT Notebook = 7.015
>Maxdata (3100x) Pentium IV 2.67 without HT Notebook = ~ 6.300
>Xeon 2.8 GHz with HT = 7.670
>Athlon XP 2.5GHz = 8.721
>
>>1.6 GHz Intel Centrino (Maxdata 8000 Notebook) = 7.100
>>
>>Best
>>Frank
>
>Since the K6, MHz for MHz the AMD CPUs have been faster than the equally priced
>Intel chips. ie: K6-abc faster than P2-abc, Athlon xyz faster than P3-xyz
>
>The Centrino is really a modified Pentium III which clock for clock DESTROYS the
>patheticly over cycled and over hyped P4.  It brings me great joy to see the old
>school Pentium III get to near 2GHz and spank his younger sibling P4 that is
>cycling 50+% faster!
>
>No offense, but I really think Intel sucks for most general purpose
>applications.  The Centrino is the first good chip Intel has done in years.  I'm
>still waiting for Intel to release a 5.5GHz chip (the ads will look great) that
>is slower than a quality 2GHz chip.
>
>-- Kevin Heider



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