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Subject: Re: IBM Centrino Dothan 1.7 Ghz. almost $2000 in Israel!

Author: stuart taylor

Date: 12:55:37 05/05/05

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>3. There are the "new" centrinos using better technology than the old ones (e.g.
>smaller transistors, 9 nm instead of 13 nm) and equipped with 2 MB 2nd level
>cache. These processors are called "Dothan", they only start at 1.6 or 1.7 GHz,
>and it is these that your potential vendor is talking about. It is also the one
>I bought, so my Centrino 2.0 GHz roughly has the same speed as a P4 with 3.8 GHz
>or an Athlon XP "3800+". Needless to say that they are currently the best
>available for chess in terms of calculating speed

Your centrino 2.0?
Or the "one you also bought" (Dothan 1.7?)?

Centrino Dothan goes further than 1.7 Ghz?

S.Taylor



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