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    sonoma or dothan?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by doobie04, Jul 20, 2005.

  1. doobie04

    doobie04 Notebook Consultant

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    what pentium m processor do you have and does it really matter?
     
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    sonoma is also dothan core, but runs at 533 FSB.

    Anyway, sonoma is only marginally faster if at all on a clock per clock bases, but consumes more power (and hence produces a bit more heat and less battery life) than dothan at 400 FSB
     
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    thats what i thought i had read somewhere that the sonoma was running a higher fsb then the dothan.

    i was looking at my 9300s system info at dell.com, and it says Pentium M Dothan, 2.0GHZ, 2 MB, 533FSB, and i got confused.
     
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