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    core duo or pentium M

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by saosid, Apr 14, 2006.

  1. saosid

    saosid Newbie

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    Hey i was wondering if anyone knew what kind of performance gain would a core duo processor / core solo give vs. a pentium M. And also how big of an impact of performance would the the 64bit windows Vista be when running on a pentium M than on intel cores becasuse the core solo/core duo are 64-bit right?
     
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    Core solo not as much, Core duo, significant.

    The Core Duo processor is NOT 64-bit, however there will be an AMD processor out very soon called Turion X2 that will be both 64BIT and Multithreaded.
     
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    The CPU is one factor which will determine your notebook's speed. Hard drive speed, and speed and amount of memory will also have a big effect on system performance. Anything CPU intensive, the Core Duo will be faster. It really depends on what you are doing.
     
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    Enough said, these two guys have got it on the money.
     
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    Thanks guys that was really helpful. So why doest intel start making a mobile 64-bit processor?
     
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    Because... I don't know, they wanted Core Duo to come out before Turion X2 so they just made it multithreaded, but not 64-bit. That's my guess.
     
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    They are, it is called Merom. It will not be released until later in the year though. Merom is the mobile version of Conroe. I believe it will still be dubbed Core Duo.
     
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    So which one do people recommend? Duo Core or pM for gaming?

    What does a 2.0 pM compared as to a p4 and Athlon?
     
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    Core Duo for gaming, as far as I know there isn't an enormous difference in gaming, but Core Duo will improove on other aspects of the computer.

    A 2.0 PM is about equivalent to a 3.6GHz P4 except it'll produce a lot less heat and it'll consume a lot less power. I prefer the PM for gaming over the P4.
     
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    In single threaded applications like most (morrowind I believe uses one core to help load the next area) games there will be NO difference, in multithreaded aps (these will be getting more common) there will be a large difference.
     
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    I'd go with whatever laptop had a better GPU for gaming.
     
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    I agree with chazman, if you're into games, get a better GPU not CPU as most CPUs these days are all powerful as heck, so it isn't as much of a concern about which CPU to get; excluding the whole 64-bit/dual core talk.

    Another reason why I believe these manufacturers are releasing core duos before 64-bit and just releasing products one at a time is of course marketing reasons. For profit, North American market likes to milk everything for everything they're worth before releasing something new. I like how AMD doesn't do this too much since they have to compete with Intel, but lately it seems like they're surpassing Intel; at least in the desktop processor race.

    Cheers,
    Mike
     
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    If you have two systems with same GPU, and have the choice of a Pentium M, or Core Duo, Core Duo is the better choice. As mentioned before, if gaming is a priority, you should be more concerned with the GPU than anything else...

    As far as CPU's go, in a notebook, Core Duo is the cat's pajamas.
     
    ostack, Apr 14, 2006
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