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Subject: Re: Pentium Centrino 2GHz

Author: Odd Gunnar Malin

Date: 14:05:06 11/24/04

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On November 24, 2004 at 15:46:16, Ernest Bonnem wrote:

>Nice PC, Odd Gunnar !
>Can you tell us more : brandname, price, does it get hot (and noisy) on 100%
>chess thinking ? What is the battery consumption ?
>

Hi

It is a Compaq NW8000, you can see some data here:
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/321957-64295-89315-321838-f1-364189.html

Difference on my comp is.

2 GHz proc.
1 GB ram
Bluetooth included.
dvd rw
60 GB, 7200 rpm hard drive

Bought in Norway so it was a little expencive: 22000NOK plus taxes (8K), eg.
between 4500-5000$.

Only problem I have had is that the standby mode stoped to work after I had
installed my apps plus upgraded WinXP with SP2.
It is a little minus so I will do some try to get it to work, it will extend the
batt.time if you can set it in standby with the panel.

I haven't tested the batteri life but for my use until now, I haven't had any
problem. I would guess around 5-6 hours with normal use (no engine running). But
I will set it to search on the startposition tomorrow and see how long it will
run.

The noice isn't much difference from my last laptop with a PIII/850MHz. A little
fan noice when the proc. work hard (running chess program), but not so much that
it is annoying. When it don't do any hard work it is complete quiet.
Though, there is some noice from the DVD when I watch Roman's DVDs.

The temperature after som hours engine search is less than on the old PIII. Eg.
not annoying hot. The fan is blewing on the side and not on the bottom so you
don't need to arrange it (lift it up) for a long time search.

The bluetooth is nice, I use it to connect to my mobile phone so I can do remote
controlling. Earlier I used the infrared port, but sitting in a car etc. it's
hard to keep the phone and pc in sync.

>Performancewise :
>If you have Fritz 8, what nps do you get at 64MB hash on Fritzmark ?

I only have the DGT version of Fritz, eg. Fritz 6 in Fritz 7 gui. I didn't get
the Fritzmark to run in this setup.

>If you have Shredder 8, what nps do you get at 256MB hash on the initial
>position, after approx. 60 sec ?

Here I only have Shredder 6, but I have only installed the classic engine so I
can reach the engines (6.0 and 6.02 paderborn) from other gui.

>You have ChessTiger2004 :-)), what nps do you get at 192MB hash on the initial
>position, after approx. 60 sec ?

After 1.06 minute with Tiger 2004 in CA 8 I get 910 kn/s.

Odd Gunnar
>
>Thank you for these data.
>
>Ernest




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