Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 01:01:05 02/28/06
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On February 28, 2006 at 03:58:06, h.g.muller wrote: >I thought 'Centrino' did mean the CPU was a Celeron. The only difference should >be in the chip set, if that is Intel or a competitor, which usually makes no >difference for the performance. Chess programs are not likely to be very >sensitive to the chip-set performance anyway, they run almost entirely in the >CPU chip (from the various caches). The only signals that pass through the >chip-set are the DRAM accesses, and these are usually only needed for hash-table >access, where they are purely random and non-local. So whatever clever tricks a >memory controller in the north bridge might know to manage open DRAM pages, it >will be all in vain... The Centrino is a much faster processor, relative to clock speed. Terry
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