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    Mbp 800mhz Front side Bus vs. 1066mhz how much a peformance gain??

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by jjahshik32, Apr 28, 2008.

  1. jjahshik32

    jjahshik32 Notebook Deity

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    Just curious how much of a performance gain there would be from the current penryn *SR* platform of 800mhz front side bus to the newer Penryn *montevina* 1066mhz front side bus.

    As a mac pro 1st gen owner at 1333 mhz frontside bus and the newer mac pro 1600mhz frontside bus (owned this as well) I didnt see a huge difference in speed... maybe its about the same in the mbp as well?
     
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  2. Robgunn

    Robgunn Notebook Evangelist

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    Not much at all. Maybe 1-4% if even that. In other words virtually unnoticeable unless you are doing heavy CPU intensive tasks.

    We should see a major performance improvement when Apple starts using Intel's Nehalem-based chips around Q1-Q2 of 2009.
     
    Robgunn, Apr 28, 2008
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    and a bigger one in 2012, and 2015... and so on.

    my point... you really wont get much of a speedier machine in 6months time. And waiting, well, see time table above :)
     
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    Agree.Higher FSB wont give you much .I just brought my first mac with penryn CPU & will keep it until intel release native quad core cpu for mobile systems(Hopefully Nehalem)
     
    bigspin, Apr 28, 2008
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