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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