Question

[Warhawk]

Ok, i have 2 rigs right next to eachother. One is a P3 1.13Ghz laptop and the other is a P4 1.6GHz. The weird thing is the laptop outproduces the other rig with the same protein. Both are folding gromatics. Could it be the cache? Cuase the laptop has 512 and the other rig has 256. All i can say about that is......................Cool!

 

[grv]

if your p4 went down hard at some point, and you aren't forcing assembly optimizations, they may have been turned off by the client. Check to see if you see any mention of sse being on in the recent log entries.

 

[Warhawk]

Its on in both.

 

[looktall]

i'd say it's more to do with the fact that the willamette P4 is just a sh*thouse performer. especially compared to a PIII tualatin.

slightly offtopic here, but how the hell did you get a laptop with a PIII-S in it?

 

[Warhawk]

I just bought it. Its a dell inspiron 8100. Is that a good thing?

 

[looktall]

PIII-S chips are normally used in dual cpu setups.
i didn't expect to see one in a laptop.

 

[Warhawk]

Well what ever it is it hauls arse. Is it possible to take out of the laptop and put it in a desktop? And would it be worth it/is it a good chip?

 

[looktall]

oh hang about.
jeeze i'm an idiot.

it's a mobile chip. they tend to have different specs to the desktop chips.
i'm not to sure what core it uses now.
could be tualatin, could be northwood? (it uses a 0.13 micron process.)

but i can tell you that there *may* be a slim chance that it will work in a desktop mobo.
but it depends on a few things.
firstly it depends on which 1.13 cpu you have.
one of the three 1.13 m-PIII chips made uses the same socket as the P4. (478-PPGA FCPGA2)

i don't know too much about laptops, but it would also depend on if the cpu is actually removable or not.

if the laptop is still under warranty, and i imagine it would be, you're probably better off not ripping it apart just yet.

 

[Warhawk]

Its not, and the HD is out