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    Santa Rosa Supports Penryn

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by fabarati, Jan 7, 2008.

  1. fabarati

    fabarati Frorum Obfuscator

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    Penryn Is released on the 965m Express chipset. If your laptop motherboard (and bios) supports it, You can swithc your present Santa Rosa Merom to a Santa Rosa Penryn.

    Here's Anandtechs take on Penryn. On a completly identically configured Dell D630, save for the CPU, a 2,6GHz Penryn (T9500) lasts 55 Min longer than a 2,6GHz Merom (T7800) when running the productivity tests of Sysmark2007. The performance increase however was only between 5-10%

    There's also a member of this forum who's updated his HP DV2500 to a Penryn CPU. Read that here
     
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    thats good news mate.

    i really have hope that the santa rosa platform would last longer than 1 year. so we will have the opportunity to at least upgrade our cpu. i´m curious if we will be able to get quadcores with the santa rosa chipset
     
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    That's really my hope as well. Being able to upgrade to 2.6 GHz and get more battery life is fine and dandy, but if I can get a quad core, man oh man that would be sweeet!
     
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    The quad core will appear in Desktop replacements. And Montevina will replace Santa Rosa - and Nehalem will likely have replaced penryn - before the quad cores have low enough powerdraws to work in high performance laptops that aren't DTRs.
     
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