Celeron Dual Core E1400

Viliyana Filipova — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:20:53 +0000

For a short time the market appears a very interesting processor – Intel Dual Core Celeron E1400. The interesting thing in it, that is a real dual-core Conroe processor running on a strong rate of 2.00GHz. Intel still uses the old names and Pentium Celeron, which we believe have been inappropriate for the segmentation of their processors. Even if given the legacy of Pentium processors and Celeron, it is this legacy of the powerful but cumbersome Pentium 4 (Willamette, Northwood, Prescott) and their analogues with truncated Celeron cache and system bus. Heritage can only be of Pentium M (Banias and Dothan), processors that were developed in Israel and who saved Intel from breathing on their neck AMD. Perhaps few people know that the Pentium M is a direct successor to the Pentium III Tualatin, Pentium M with a few amendments to be transformed into Yonah (Core Duo, Core Solo) – ie the current dual-core processors. Banias, Dothan and Yonah are words of Jewish origin, which clearly shows the origin and the relationship between processors.
There should be a clear difference between a Pentium architecture NetBurst (Pentium 4, Pentium D and derived XEON processors and Celeron) and the Pentium, resulting from the Intel P6 (Pentium Pro, Pentium III Tualatin, later and modern Pentium M Core Duo, Solo, 2 Duo, Quad). NetBurst was branded by Intel as inefficient and expensive and therefore was removed from production. After these historical notes, let us focus on this overview of the Intel Dual Core Celeron E1400. The core processor is Conroe – 512, ie the cache of the processor is reduced to 512KV (typical for Celeron).
The main difference between Core Duo, and E1400 as it is and Core2Duo (after Merom) processors 64-bit architecture of the past. The ability to work with 64-bit operating systems is available even in single-core AMD processors, but Intel imposition of this architecture defined cause difficulties. Downplaying the 64-bit OS from the marketers of Intel is very unfair, but these are the rules of trade. Many can be told for the history of processors, efficiency, productivity, etc., but our goal is to show the results of the tests rather than write a dissertation. Competitors to test Dual Core Celeron E1400 is AMD Ahtlon X2 3600 + (processor revolution in the processor, the construction and mobilized the scientific potential to create an Intel Conroe) and Dual Core Pentium D 2.8GHz (representative of the last dinosaurs of the NetBurst architecture).
Test operating system is Windows XP Pro SP3.
Configurations are on equal footing for video-production of powerful and affordable video card NVidia GeForce 9600GSO 768MB DDR3. It is necessary to mention that the AMD X2 3600 + and Pentium D are placed in a more favorable position than E1400, because they are tested in branded machines – HP Pavilion t, respectively, 3615 and HP Pavilion t3717. Celeron Dual Core E1400 e mounted in a box Delux, with a budget motherboard Asus (G31 chipset) and is cooled by cooler boxing (rather quiet and efficient).

Pentium M – which is the best Centrino laptop?

Viliyana Filipova — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:16:41 +0000

In our test lab visit the following “contenders” for the champion’s title among Centrino (Pentium M) laptops: - Toshiba Tecra M3 – Centrino Pentium M 1.73GHz (2MB), GeForce 6200TE 64MB, 1024MB DDR2. Stylish and very model of a solid senior class Tecra Toshiba (nothing to do with receiving the black and poor along the import Sattelite series). Metallic shell, comfortable keyboard, joystick, DDR2 memory and the course is in fantastic broken way GeForce 6200 video card. - HP nc6000 – Centrino Pentium M 1600MHz (2MB), Radeon 9600 32MB, 512MB DDR. Rugged design, good sound, bright and contrast display, good video. - IBM Thinkpad T42 – Centrino Pentium M 1700MHz (2MB), 512MB DDR, Radeon 7500 64MB. Extremely healthy, stylish and thin composite shell, the strongest hinges (titanium) of the views from my laptop. Very comfortable keyboard and extremely convenient joystick, active protection system on the hard disk (sensor position and acceleration). A powerful graphics card, which is limited only by the lack of support for DX9. - IBM ThinkPad X31 – Centrino Pentium M 1600MHz, 512MB DDR, Radeon Mobility 16MB. Very compact 12-inch mini-laptop. Same strong composite housing as T42. Conclusions: Toshiba Tecra M3 is the undisputed winner in the gaming and graphics tests. Exclusive graphical power makes this laptop suitable even for professional graphic design (see results from SPEC ViewPerf 8.1). Other indicators of power such as laptops are close to form two groups – Toshiba Tecra M3 and IBM Thinkpad T42, which are quite similar with the other group of IBM X31 and HP Nc6000, showing slightly weaker results, such as productivity. Centrino videomosht phenomenal for a Tecra M3 is somewhat succeeded neloshata competition from video on HP nc6000, which, however, loses much of its truncated videopamet. These two laptops are suitable for games and Tecra M3 is quite new for games like Serious Sam 2, Need For Speed Most Wanted. Thinkpad laptops show what strength, reliable, stylish and beautiful building, comfortable keyboard, solid and silent operation. It appears particularly well against the cheap housing and not very stable hinges HP nc6000. Of course, the quality of Tninkpad (IBM implementation) is bordered by the military and space technologies and is unattainable for other manufacturers and therefore not properly be taken as a yardstick against because of cheap Chinese new HP nc6000 laptop is much more robust and solid laptop. Our test laboratory is impressed by the agility of the work of the new Centrino 533MHz FSB processor, DDR2 memory, a high-quality production of the body and the powerful graphics card on Toshiba Tecra M3 and it’s championship performance, but our winner is IBM Thinkpad T42 – productive , stylish and reliable. Choice of authors, however, remains “midget” Thinkpad X31 – convenient, compact, rugged and lightweight. Technique that would mislead you to a much lesser extent than any other. Feedback from friends and customers for small Centrino are impressive.

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