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Dothan the ultimate PC chip ?

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Originally posted by: Hacp
WTF is with all these useless posts.

If you can't discuss why the DOTHAN is obviously Superior to thee AMD 64 DO NOT REPLY.

I repeat if you can't discuss why the Dothan is obvoiusly superior to the AMD64 and X2, do not reply. Your wasting the time of the ultamite processor, the Intel Pentium M Centrino Platform based , 2MB of low latency cache , ultra slim, sleek, cool, desgined by Isreal, low pipeline, higly efficient, amazing at games and office applications Dothan processor.
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We can't discuss DOTHAN's superiority, because

1. it doesn't have any, my low end San Deigo 3700+ will pulverize it
2. it's not available, got one? didn't think so.
3. if and when you and Dothan and Intelia pool all your lunch money and buy one, come post your benches here, so we can hand you your arse with our sucky AMD chips.
 
It is hard to call any chip the "ultimate" anything. There are too many different types of computers and users.

For mobile applications, Dothan has no equal when it comes to performance per watt. That can't be argued.

For gaming, you can OC a Dothan so it is comparable to an A64.

For multithreaded content creation apps like Photoshop, video encoding and animation software that get a huge performance boost from multiple processors, an A64 X2 will wipe the floor with any Dothan simply from the fact that it has twice the processing power at its disposal (and the multithreaded apps won't put that power to waste like games will).

In a 64-bit Linux server environment, Dothan isn't even an option since you have neither 64-bit capability nor SMP capability.

Besides, it doesn't really matter how good Dothan is as a desktop chip anyway. Intel doesn't officially support it in that configuration, and Dothan desktops are not sold in significant numbers. It is like the old dualie Celeron configurations people used to put together. They were nice performers, but they in no way made the Celeron an important SMP platform in the grand scheme of things.

That said, I'm actually excited by Intel's new desktop designs, especially if they allow Apple to do some of the cool things with their virtualization tech that I speculate may make me want to run out and buy a PowerMac in 2007.

It is no longer debatable that AMD has the superior desktop technology, and probably will continue to dominate until Conroe is released. Just enjoy the fact that the Dothan chip rules the laptop market, which is the largest growing and most profitable segment of the computer market right now. From Inetl's point of view, that is a much better pplace to be leading technologically.
 
the Dothan is a great chip, I have a 1.6 in my laptop...there are a few improvements tho

(1) a higher FSB

(2) some decent desktop MB's for it

good chip tho, hmm...reminds me a lot of the A64, which is also a great chip...

🙂
 
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