Just ran the benchmarks on my i8600 and i9300.

i8600 is a 1.7Ghz Pentium M, 400Mhz FSB, 1024Mb RAM, 80Gb Hitachi HDD

Just in case anyone is interested here is the comparison.

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computer computer performance

Dhrystone 2.1 4498 3828 kDhryst. 117 percent
Whetstone 1104 933 MFLOPS 118 percent
Eight queens problem 6145 5252 pps 117 percent
Matrix operations 244895 209227 k ops 117 percent
Number crunch 200940 123651 k ops 162 percent
Floating point 16768 14297 k ops 117 percent
Memory throughput 777700 532822 kB/sec 145 percent

Total CPU 131 percent
Total FPU 117 percent
Average 127 percent

Application Performance 130 percent

Drive C Drive C
Read max 39389 91528 kB/sec
Read average 28877 91356 kB/sec
Read min 23631 90856 kB/sec
Write max 37421 78853 kB/sec
Write average 27435 18333 kB/sec
Write min 22093 4992 kB/sec
CPU usage 0 0 percent


533Mhz FSB Pentium M 2.0Ghz Inspiron 9300
256Mb Nvidia Gforce 6800 GO
1920x1200 Ultrasharp Truelife WUXGA 17" TFT LCD
1 Gb RAM
100Gb Fujitsu HDD