About Centrino...

[Catbert]

They need to devise a license for PC's. One that says whether you are allowed to use it, modify/build or both.

Could be entertaining.

 

[gaara]

I knew absolutely nothing of Centrinos until about a month ago when a replaced my new AMD 3000+ Laptop because I was a bit disappointed with the overall setup of it.

I am now quite satisfied with my Centrino, it does remarkably resemble AMD architechture from what I understand, and it's actually quite a nifty little machine. The Centrino will actually run at a certain temperature without any fans spinning, and I mean none. Once it reaches a certain temperature, which I believe is over 50 degrees, the fan will kick in and cool down the processor. I was pretty impressed with this little technology Intel rigged up.

 

[almach1]

I thought centrino was nothing more than a bundle of certain features in order to be centrino certified.

 

[PP Mguire]

My amd 2800 2.8 ghz system beats any centrino processor

We where just making fun of ppl who called them centrino processors. Ounce again they are NOT processors. Centrino is a technology based on the AMD cpu put into an intel processor. :beard: But i heard it worx quite well in any lappy so i wouldnt mind having at least 1 intel in the house.

 

[grego]

I thought centrino was nothing more than a bundle of certain features in order to be centrino certified.

That's exactly what it is, a Pentium M, an Intel Pro/Wireless chip for 802.11 Wi-Fi, and a certain chipset. I wouldn't refer to it as "nothing more than" though...

 

[grego]

What about the dothan core "centrino's"

http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/processorsmemory/0,39024015,39154053,00.htm

These are a completly different chip and max out at 2.0ghz. Different from pentium 4 mobiles and these chips resemble the AMD artechture more than the p4.

DJ-CHRIS, please read a bit more carefully!

Note the first words of the article, "The latest Pentium M processor from Intel improves on the Banias core..."

Dothan is a core of Pentium M chips...

 

[DJ-CHRIS]

My amd 2800 2.8 ghz system beats any centrino processor

If you have a 2.8ghz 2800 it will beat out any stock cpu (except maybee an fx-55)

 

[PP Mguire]

I doubt seriously that a 2800+ can beat out some of the 64bit cpus either.

 

[DJ-CHRIS]

^^^ It's still a different core making it a completly new processor. However some centrino's i believe are also just p4's.

Also if a 2800+ (could even be a 64 bit as well) was running at 2.8 ghz, it would be running ahead of or with the fx-55.

The 2800 is only like an 1.6 ghz CPU i think.

 

[PP Mguire]

yea so somebody is either lying or didnt know what he/she was talking about. I could run my 2600+ (watercooling mind you) that fast but still not outperform my dads FX-55! Besides a 64bit cpu could outperform Socket A.