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    Centrino ULV

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by dyne, Mar 20, 2006.

  1. dyne

    dyne Newbie

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    Pls,could anybody tell me what frequency of pentium 4,celeron m,amd celeron will give the same performance as 1.1 ghz centrino ulv (m733)???
     
    dyne, Mar 20, 2006
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  2. skywalker

    skywalker Business Notebook FTW!!

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    Just my thought, my friend has vaio with 1.2ghz ulv(400MHz fsb) 512ddr and its performance is snappy compared to my old notebook, toshiba satellite 2430 with p4m 1.6,256ddr 2100.
    I opened photoshop cs2 in both laptops, and 1.2ulv performs a bit faster than my old toshiba.
     
    skywalker, Mar 20, 2006
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  3. dyne

    dyne Newbie

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    but,if to campare ulv with Celeron 2000, pentium 4 1800 (not mobile), and celeon M 1,4 (or 1.3) . How would you arrange them from 1 to 5 place (by performance).

    thx
     
    dyne, Mar 21, 2006
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  4. skywalker

    skywalker Business Notebook FTW!!

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    Hmm..P4 1.8GHz (non mobile)in a laptop is quite fast, whereas celeronM 360(1.4Ghz)slightly better than celeron 2Ghz because of huge L2 cache.
    So in terms of performance,P4 1.8GHz > UlV 1.1/1.2GHz > celeron M 1.4GHz > celeron 2GHz.
    Celeron M(pentium M derivative) is the first celeron made by Intel that performs quite good, any old celerons p4/m based are not good even suffer poor performance
     
    skywalker, Mar 21, 2006
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  5. Brian

    Brian Working at 486 Speed NBR Reviewer

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    Depends on the speeds and what you're doing, but the ULV will generally be the slowest, even the 1.1GHz ULV compared to a higher clock speed Celeron. That said, I've been on the ULV for 3 years for my primary machine and have no issues.
     
    Brian, Mar 21, 2006
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  6. Rahul

    Rahul Notebook Prophet

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    They are quite speedy processors and suitable for many tasks except for very intensive ones like gaming, heavy video editing and the like.
    I know my 1.0 ghz Pentium M ULV in my Lifebook P5020D was much faster than the 1.1 ghz AMD Athlon in my old desktop. I used it for basic tasks with 512 megs of ram and it ran them all without a hitch, didn't stutter at all with several windows open as well.
     
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    dyne, Mar 23, 2006
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  8. ivar

    ivar Notebook Deity

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    The 1,2GHz PM ULV I tested runs 2M superpi test in 2min27sec to 2m30sec (undervolting software and a couple of other small monitoring programs were running in parallel).

    SiSo Sandra 2005 arythmetic benchmark for my system with 1,2GHz PM ULV produces:
    Dhrystone ALU 5116 MIPS
    Whetstone FPU/iSSE21573/2124 MFLOPS

    This puts this processor on par with Pentium 4 2GHz 256L2
    (Dhrystone ALU 5247 MIPS, Whetstone FPU/iSSE2 1460/2691 MFLOPS),
    15% below Athlon XP 1600+ 1.4GHz,
    20% below PM 715 1,4GHz Banias, etc.

    It is more than enough for everyday office work and internet.
     
    ivar, Mar 23, 2006
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