Dothan Vs. Pentium M Vs. Conventional P4s. (1 Viewer)

[Collin]

Now I hardly know anything about the performance of the yet-to-be-widely available 'Dothan' chip for notebooks, but does anyone know just how well the Pentium M chips compare with the conventional P4 chips in terms of performance (perhaps gaming)?

Like for example roughly what clockspeed of a M processor would equivalate to that of a P4?

I've been surfing around and it seems that a 2GHz M is roughly equal in general performance wise with a roughly P4 3.2GHz.. is that right?

 

[jm1234567890]

more imporantly is they don't produce as much heat....

yeah, 2ghz pentium M is pretty fast, prolly equiv to a 3GHz P4 destop version and your batteries will last lot longer.

the videocard is much more important in most games anyway.

EDIT: and generally lighter since less cooling equipment

 

[Collin]

Originally posted by jm1234567890
the videocard is much more important in most games anyway.

Yeah, good point. I don't know why I always stress about CPU speed for games when the main bulk is the integrity of the GPU. Now if only they offered the 256MB Radeon 9700 Mobility on the 8600 instead of the rather.. LARGE and HEAVY 9100 series.

So will the Dothan be reasonably more powerful than the M series anyway?

And I take it that it's gonna cost.. ALOT.

 

[Grey Council]

-.-

*hugs his pentium celeron 666*


more than good enough for me...in the hsc year anyway.
gawd, if I got a good computer, then my grades would go flying alongside this shit box.

 

[Collin]

Originally posted by Orange Council
gawd, if I got a good computer, then my grades would go flying alongside this shit box.

One reason why I'm postponing my performance notebook purchase until well after my final exams.

 

[MicK_eT]

Originally posted by Orange Council
-.-

*hugs his pentium celeron 666*


more than good enough for me...in the hsc year anyway.
gawd, if I got a good computer, then my grades would go flying alongside this shit box.

yay ive found someone with a crappier comp than mine !! PIII 690 <-- me

 

[Collin]

Originally posted by MicK_eT
yay ive found someone with a crappier comp than mine !! PIII 690 <-- me

Nah, I've still got an older system. Not the one I'm using now (Athlon 2000+), but still one I occassionally boot up nonetheless; 66MHz 486, 250MB HD, 4MB RAM, VGA graphics, no sound, 14 inch monitor. Beat that buddy.

 

[Winston]

Heh i might be a bit late but, Dothan is dubbed as being Centrino 2, however it's essentially Centrino itself but this time Dothan supports 802.11g protocol furthermore the CPU speeds start from 1.8 ghz and up. That's the major diffrences and it's probably tweaked a little, i'm not too sure on the L2 Cache i think it's still status quo.

Pentium 4 on laptops, yes they have the power however drains the batteries. Pentium M is basically what Centrino and Dothan Runs off, Pentium M was intentionally designed for Laptops so thus better battery conservations, and it incorporates the Intel Speed-Step technology, which in simple terms, is that your laptop only uses a portion of CPU processing power based on demand, so if you've got your system on with no apps running other than smaller ones, then your laptop will probably only consume 251 Mhz, which saves alot of energy. Centrino is basically the chipset which has integrated wireless capabilties and is tied with the Pentium M chip, Centrino is just basically Wireless + Pentium M, and optimised for battery life for wireless usage.


Hope this clears it all.

 

[jm1234567890]

Originally posted by JKDDragon
Nah, I've still got an older system. Not the one I'm using now (Athlon 2000+), but still one I occassionally boot up nonetheless; 66MHz 486, 250MB HD, 4MB RAM, VGA graphics, no sound, 14 inch monitor. Beat that buddy.

I have a mac LCII

colour monitor
40meg HD
17Mhz cpu (i think)

 

[sunny]

I have an entire 286, 386 and 486 family sitting in my room somewhere......be damned if I know the specs of the 286.