From: Ron Hardin on
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These are execution times on various Dell laptops I've found around
the office
for a CPU and RAM intensive job. No disk accesses, no graphics.

A couple added since last time, is all.

The biggest effect I think comes from L2 cache size and FSB speed.
The CPU speed is comparatively minor.

144.26 sec 2493 MHz V1500 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9300 @ 2.50GHz
(6MB L2 Cache)
183.58 sec 1994 MHz V1500 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7300 @ 2.00GHz
(4MB L2 Cache)
214.80 sec 1995 MHz V1500 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7250 @ 2.00GHz
224.84 sec 1795 MHz V1400 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7100 @ 1.80GHz
225.49 sec 1795 MHz V1700 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5670 @ 1.80GHz
231.53 sec 1596 MHz V1400 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5470 @ 1.60GHz
233.17 sec 1595 MHz V1500 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5470 @ 1.60GHz
250.20 sec 1396 MHz V1500 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5270 @ 1.40GHz
274.95 sec 1729 MHz I9400 Intel(R) Core(TM) Duo CPU T2250 @ 1.73GHz
282.88 sec 1595 MHz I6400 Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2050 @ 1.60GHz
352.69 sec 1595 MHz B130 Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.60GHz (1MB
L2 Cache)
400.97 sec 1496 MHz I2200 Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.50GHz (1MB
L2 Cache)
406.59 sec 1695 MHz I1501 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor
TK-53 (512KB L2 Cache)
417.39 sec 1296 MHz I1200 Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.30GHz (1MB
L2 Cache)

I* = Inspiron
V* = Vostro
B130=B130

All 2MB L2 Cache unless noted (I think).

Vostros have a 800MHz FSB; the rest 533MHz.