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    Sorry, I was just wondering, Whats Santa Rosa?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by Jukeboxmusicman, Jul 19, 2007.

  1. Jukeboxmusicman

    Jukeboxmusicman Notebook Guru

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    Sorry dont flame me...I'm new at this.
     
    Jukeboxmusicman, Jul 19, 2007
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    sesshomaru Suspended Disbelief!

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    Santa Rosa is the latest mobile platform released by Intel, for their Core 2 duo processors. It basically consists of the i965PM chipset, and the C2D Merom processors, with a FSB of 800 MHZ. That is it, in a nutshell. For lots more information, wikipedia it.
     
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    its basically just like the last processors for the last few months - except it has a higher fsb, which helps performance in general

    went from 667mhz to 800mhz

    if that makes it easier?
     
    kickace, Jul 19, 2007
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    Lol thanks, can you tell me if the new CR notebooks have it?
    By the way, nice name (inuyasha's brother?)
     
    Jukeboxmusicman, Jul 19, 2007
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    Its the 4th generation of the Centrino platform. The fsb's are bigger (677 and 800 ) the integrated video x3100 will be Direct X 10 compatible and have more resources (when the drivers are out) and the wireless has the newer "N" standard, Here is an article :ink:

    http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/09/27/intel_intros_santa_rosa/
     
    abcdelight, Jul 19, 2007
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    Jukeboxmusicman, yes. The CR series uses Santa Rosa.
     
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    Not to hijack the thread but has anyone done any benchmarking to see if 667 vs 800 fsb is even that big a deal. Also, I think Santa Rosa boards get wireless N.
     
    MxMoney, Jul 19, 2007
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    Yeah it does get Wireless N and ALRIGHT!!! I was hoping it would have Santa Rosa
     
    Jukeboxmusicman, Jul 19, 2007
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    One great feature of the SantaRosa chipset is it can run the two processor cores at different speeds. This means that during non processor intensive operations it will draw less power from the battery.

    Gary
     
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    Not all new Santa Rosa notebooks have FSB's of 800 MHz, though, right? Take the HP DV6565ca for example... you can get the T5450 processor in it, that has a FSB of 667 MHz.
     
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    Yes Santa Rosa can be 667 or 800. But DDR 800 memory will still only be able to run 667.
     
    abcdelight, Jul 21, 2007
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    Oh, why is that?

    You don't need Santa Rosa to have N wireless by the way, for instance, the Merom Vaio TZ and Asus S6FM have options for N wireless.
     
    Rahul, Jul 21, 2007
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    The Santa Rosa boards don't support DDR 800 as yet. Not sure they will any time soon. Here are some threads:

    http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=83&threadid=2059360&enterthread=y

    http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070509-intel-launches-new-santa-rosa-mobile-platform.html

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=131769

    I know you don't need Santa Rosa to have N standard but I don't think I have seen a Santa Rosa without an "N". So I usually look for X3100 first and then "N" and larger fsb numbers. Interestingly Santa Rosa doesn't come up in ads. I guess they figure people who look for it know what it is and to others they can just keep selling the old stuff.
     
    abcdelight, Jul 21, 2007
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    For the Sony Vaio CR series santa rosa and Wireless N comes standard
     
    Jukeboxmusicman, Jul 21, 2007
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