Intel Dothan
Dothan is the last iteratie of the successful Centrino-chipset, the name that Intel gave on its mobile Pentium plus thread lynx technology. This chipset lays have the emphasis on an agressive stream management in combination with acceptable performances - precisely what you on a notebook necessarily.
Dothan is a lot of reasons an important upgrade. The technology has been based has to hit on the 90-nm production trial, a double Level 2-cache (now 2 MB) and higher bell speed without on its economy. And just that qualities make the Dothan till an interesting offer for desktopusers that on missing be to an alleviate system.
AOpen listened good and comes now from with the i855GMEm-LFS-moederbord, a Micro-ATX-plate with standard AGP- and PCI-cards that compatibel is with the Pentium M. Only we let look at firstly the Pentium M 'Dothan' what better.
Pentium M is actual a samenraapsel of Pentium III- and Pentium 4-eigenschappen. The logic became take from Pentium III, but with a superior 'branch prediction' and an agressive stream management that particular components closed as she do not uses become.
The Pentium M has more pipe line then the Pentium III (10) and less then the Pentium 4 (31), but Intel do not want to say how much. The Front Side Bus of the Pentium M walks but at 400 MHz, while the fastest Pentium 4 get' s today 1,066 MHz.
Visually the AOpen-mother plate resembles a standard MicroATX-specimen, but the advantages of a Pentium M become look at clear as we the cooler of the i855GM-moederbord; that is but half as high as a standaardkoeler and roteert also a to pieces slower - the ingredinten for a fluisterstil system. Mark also how the socket a quarter blow got, but that the affirmation for the cooler source parallel with the mother plate stands.
When we our system build up, must we really granted that this chipset our desktopsystem serious bothers. We can use and have maximum DDR333-memory only two memory ends free. Also the AGP-end is maximum 4x, where modern mother plates at 8x or PCI Deliberately exam periods.
Further we find a Promise SATA-controller, Gigabit Ethernet and a Realtek AC' 97-sound ship on board. The fastest Pentium M that is available, turns at 2 GHz. We compare the apparatus with two fast desktopconfigurations on base of a Pentium 4 and an ATHLON64. We doubt there naturally not that the Dothan-desktop more slowly will be, but our question is: how much more slowly”
We are moreover especially genteresseerd in the multimediale qualities of this system, and get the next benchmarks above: PC Mark 2004 (for memory and processor); Windows Media 9, DivX 5.2 and WMA-audio-encoders (for media code ring); Unreal Tournament 2004, Painkiller, Doom 3 and Halo (for gameprestaties); and SPECviewperf 8.0.1 (a heavy test for the whole system and for the graphic subsystem). A survey of our test configurations find you in this table (PDF).