Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 21:59:42 03/29/04
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On March 30, 2004 at 00:50:25, Nolan Denson wrote: >Below is some infor on Intels Processors .. I just found that the processor i >thought i had was not the Prescott core .... So i am wondering should i keep the >Northwood core. I am only worried about playing chess. > >The internal architecture is where the Prescott really differs from the previous >Northwood core design. The most prominent change has been to double the cache >levels, where the Prescott core features a full 16K of L1 cache (8K for the >Northwood) and a full 1-MB of L2 cache (512K - Northwood). There are other >smaller changes, such as the 8-way associative L1 cache of the Prescott (4-way >associative for the Northwood), while the 1-MB L2 cache retains the same 8-way >associative format as the Northwood. The Prescott core is built upon a 90nm >(0.09-micron) process technology, and will allow Intel to increase clock speeds >and lower core voltages more significantly than the older 0.13-micron Northwood >core would allow. I don't know about cores and all that, but the Centrino runs chess programs pretty dang fast. My brother has a Centrino 1.3GHz laptop that runs Ruffian only slightly slower than my Athlon 2GHz (he gets about 0.9-1.0Mnps while I get more like 1.1-1.2Mnps). I remember seeing the Centrino available at 1.7GHz I think. That should be competitve with the fastest 32-bit Athlons, I think (not including overclockers).
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