Compairison between Dothan and Banias Cores

[Philippine Mango]

Please tell me whats the difference between the two besides the transistor size, and cache size. My little sister's laptop is much much slower than mine and *I think the difference between the two laptops is the Cache size (different cores) and I think the older laptop (sister's) has a 5400RPM drive not sure. Her's is much much slower than mine and I'm wondering if it's because her's is a dell and Mine is an IBM + all of those other things. I'm just wondering if I had her processor would my system be just as slow. I can't imagine another 1MB in cache would increase the performance so much on mine...

 

[Stormgiant]

First, use a program like cpuz to see the main aspects of the two systems.

second, why don't you use the search button and it will take a couple minutes to find the answer to your main question 😉

 

[TDiddy]

she could aso have alot of spy ware, or other programs in back ground slower rpm hardrive, dothatn is much better though.

 

[Philippine Mango]

I know a lot about the chips and all. I read a very extensive article about the Dothan chip and the Banias chip seems about the same but her computer is much much slower. I removed all of the spyware I could find (didn't just use a program but checked registry) and still is slow. The system was surprisingly slow when we first bought it so.... Though it's slower now than when we first bought it. My mother's computer which is the same model is much faster which brings the question Why is my sister's computer much slower than my mother if it's same model and everything?

 

[gxshockwav]

maybe you have tweaked windows for better performance...like modifying msconfig, services.msc, bios, or registry etc.

and on her machine, there's been no tweaking whatsoever?

 

[jkresh]

the 5400rpm hard drive will explain some of the difference, do both laptops have the same amount of memory, if so how much is each using? Try shutting down all programs running in the background on hers, and see if that speeds things up, or just task manager (assuming you are running windows) and check if some process is using an inordinant amount of memory and or processor. Is it slower over all, or is in some programs? Does it just feel slugish, have you tried some benchmarks? Do the speed differnces change when plugged in vs on battery? If the difference is much greater on battery then off of an outlet, then check both machines power management settings. Might also want to post this is the notebooks section as they may have some other suggestions.

 

[Zap]

her's is a dell

My mother's computer which is the same model is much faster which brings the question Why is my sister's computer much slower than my mother if it's same model and everything?

I have a Dell Pentium M notebook that I bought used (Latitude D800, 1.3GHz). When I first got it, thought it was kinda slow. Also, Windows XP kept reporting that it was a 599MHz CPU. Went into BIOS, there was a setting to enable power management/speedstep or whatever. It was disabled, meaning the CPU would ONLY run at the slower 600MHz (reported as 599 in Windows). When enabled, it would run at 1.3GHz when CPU usage was up, and drop to 600 when usage was down. That one setting made all the difference in my notebook.
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Okay, I'll do one better... I have my notebook here...

Hit F2 to get into setup.

First screen on mine reports

Pentium M 1.30 GHz/600 MHz
Current CPU Speed: 600MHz
Level 2 Cache: 1024KB
etc.

Hit Alt-P a few times until you are at the "Power Management" screen. Make sure Intel SpeedStep(tm) is Enabled. This is what the BIOS says about it on the right side of the screen:

Enable the Intel SpeedStep(tm) mode.

Setting this field to ENABLED allows an Intel SpeedStep(tm) enabled CPU to operate in multiple performance states.

Setting this field to DISABLED places the system in the lowest performance state available and prevents the Intel SpeedStep(tm) applet or native operating system driver from adjusting the system performance.

When I got my notebook (used) it was DISABLED. Enabling it made a great difference in performance.