Centrino is a laptop spec (Essentially it means the combo of an Intel Core Duo processor, Intel chipset and Intel Wireless card or chipset), a Centrino Duo uses a Core Duo processor, the immediate predecessor of the Core 2 Duo processor that was recently introduced. It's a mild speed increase only.
-Adam Bill Owens wrote: > Is the Core 2 Duo similar to my Centrino Duo? > > Bill > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Feroze > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 3:00 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: OT: CPU question > > Have you looked at the Pentium D 960, 3.6Ghz its a 775 socket so I think > it should fit your board. I'm currently upgrading to the the Core 2 Duo, > have the chip and ram, awaiting delivery of the m/board and graphics > card. I've seen test results on this chip that shows a 40% increase in > photoshop and a 13% increase over the Athlon 64 FX-62. > > Feroze > > cbwaters wrote: > >>Ok, I know... Get a mac... I get it. just can't right now. >> >>My PC is a P4 1.7 (don't know the FSB speed) and I've got 504MB of DDR > > DIMM > >>RAM (not sure of the speed there either) >> >>Without switching motherboards, I can move up to around P4 3.0 with an >>800Mhz FSB and hyper-threading for about $85. >> >>How would one describe the improvement is speed here? 1-10 with ten being > > >>"waoh, that's the best $85 I ever spent!" >> >>I could, of course, also get more memory. >> >>Thanks for any help. >> >>CW >> >> >> >> >> >> > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
