Penryn sighting

[jonathonball]

One of my best friends just bought a new laptop... as group computer geek it falls on me to scrub all the bloatware off of it for him so he can start using it. While doing that I fire up cpuz just to find out whats under the hood and what to my suprise do I see? A brand spanking new Penyrn...

There is a sticker in the front that says Intel Centrino Duo.

I wasn't even aware these things were available yet ... the laptop is an HP dv9700. It has a 17" screen (1680x1050). 2gb ram, 240gb hard drive, an 8600go, bluetooth, a fingerprint reader.. and oh yeah... Bluray.

I can't wait to play with it.

 

[Mithent]

Centrino Duo is a rather vague brand.. just from that, you could be getting any Intel dual-core chip from the Core Duo onwards.

But, I didn't know they were out either, although I'm not looking for a laptop currently. Looks good though!

 

[ilkhan]

yeah the HPs were among the first to get the penryn cores out the door.

Which sucks as I want a Dell.

Dell's mega M1330 deal just expired and they haven't announced penryns yet
Maybe I should have gotten that deal and done the penryn core myself, but bios and etc make me hesitant. </OT>

also, 1.03v. Higher than id expect. 45nm should be OK being fed <1v (my 65nm allendale runs 2.4 happy at 1.00v)

 

[SuperSubZero]

I just got this yesterday:

http://www.sagernotebook.com/product_customed.php?pid=29186

I opted for the 2.5Ghz Penryn, the same T9300 as yours there. So far it's very nice. The 8800M GTX I opted for does make the whole laptop kind of loud, but it's the price to pay for crazy speed in a portable package.

 

[chrisf6969]

also, 1.03v. Higher than id expect. 45nm should be OK being fed <1v (my 65nm allendale runs 2.4 happy at 1.00v)

And its speedstepped down to 1.6Ghz it should be < 1.0v

 

[Mystofolyse]

If these Penryns are relatively cheap and are easy to obtain exist by Nehalem's launch, I'll pop one into my M1530, given a mandatory BIOS update of course.

 

[jonathonball]

And its speedstepped down to 1.6Ghz it should be < 1.0v

the voltage fluxuates pretty rapidly in cpuz, at least on this computer... it's rock solid on my desktop.

 

[fuxxy]

I just bought this beast > Toshiba X205-sli4

http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/pdet.to?seg=HHO&poid=403631

 

[ilkhan]

Yeah I think the T9300 is going to be the sweet spot. Plenty of clock speed and you get the 6MB of cache.

 

[RussianHAXOR]

How is this a Penryn if its a DualCore? Shouldn't it be labeled Wolfdale?

 

[astyler]

How is this a Peryn if its a DualCore? Shouldn't it be labeled Wolfdale?

Wolfdales are the dual-cores based on penryn architecture. So it is both a penryn and possibly wolfdale unless they use a different name for their mobile implementation. Either way it is a penryn architecture and is thus labeled

 

[Angelus897]

How is this a Peryn if its a DualCore? Shouldn't it be labeled Wolfdale?

Penryn is the name of the core architecture/design. It's dual core version is dubbed the Wolfdale and the quad core is the Yorkfield.