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    Dothan or Sonoma ? How to check ?

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Safar, Jun 14, 2005.

  1. Safar

    Safar Notebook Guru

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    Dothan or Sonoma and how to check ? as i know Sonoma use FSB 533 and Dothan use FSB 400
     
    Safar, Jun 14, 2005
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    If I know SONOMA is the name for a special CENTRINO version (earlier version was named CARMEL). DOTHAN is the name of the CPU which is disigned for running on SONOMA. And ALVISO is the chip set (i915 M) for SONOMA with DOTHAN. [ :)]

    So ... DOTHAN and SONOMA are using the same FSB: 133MHz (FSB533).

    So long
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  3. miner

    miner Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    The easiest way to find out whether the chipset supports either 533MHz or 400MHz FSB is to use a system informaton utility. Try CPU-Z(www.cpuid.com). It will list the processor, chipset & other useful info.



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