Author: Tony Werten
Date: 07:43:26 01/26/04
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On January 26, 2004 at 10:38:08, Chesster Fritz wrote: >On January 26, 2004 at 10:00:43, Kim Roper Jensen wrote: > >>On January 26, 2004 at 08:38:04, Russell Reagan wrote: >> >>>On January 26, 2004 at 07:06:21, Tony Werten wrote: >>> >>>>What's new on this processor ? >>>> >>>>A Pentium M, 1.3 Ghz runs XiniX 30% faster than a P4, 2.4 Ghz laptop ? >>>> >>>>Tony >>> >>>If that's the same as the Centrino, then yeah, it rocks. My brother's 1.3 GHz >>>Centrino laptop runs chess programs about as fast (maybe slightly slower) as my >>>Athlon 2 GHz. Just from my memory, I think it has a bigger cache (1MB?) and >>>longer pipelines, but with much better branch prediction than the P4. >> >>As i understood its an souped up pentium 3, with some new stuff called >>codefusion.... I got a IBM t40 1.5 Ghz centrino and its quite fast :) > >Has it been tested at 2.8Ghz for chess? It sounds like it might blow AMD away >at that speed, excluding the AMD 64 bit processors. It does for my program. The P4 2.4 Ghz is the same speed as my athlon 2000+ which has a clock of 1.67 I would need at least an athlon @ 2.1 Ghz to get the same speed as this Centrino has at 1.3 Ghz Tony
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