Centrino vs Athlon64-M

[MrCommunistGen]

I'm in the market for a new laptop for college and am trying to decide between similar models, one with an A64-M and the other with a Centrino. Does anyone have any suggestions/benchmarks... I haven't been able to find any benchmarks so links would be appreciated.

Thanks!
-mcg

 

[MrCommunistGen]

I can get a 1.8Ghz Centrino or A64-M 3700 for about the same amount of money.

 

[scottchen]

What is your highest priority? Battery life? or Performance? The Centrino would last 2x if not longer than the A64, performance, the Athlon64 would be about 15% better.

 

[K8MAN]

I have a 1.6 P-m and i like it alot. It goes down to 2xx mhz most of the time when i'm wireless and had great battery life. My A64 on my desktop system feels faster in windows but i think thats my raptors vs whatever slow hdd is in my lappy.

The know-most-of-it-all formally known as BOBSHACK

 

[HansGruber]

How about AMD turion ?

 

[HansGruber]

I was just thinking that there is no 3700+ turion..
(probably means ML-37)

edit: i don't know anything about mobile pc's, i'll shut up..
<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by HansGruber on 06/09/05 03:01 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[Keman]

Check out http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20050525/pentium4-10.html

A Pentium-M at 2133MHZ, depending on the situation, ranges in performance from a FX-55 to around a AMD64 3500 gaming power, a 1.8GHZ should be quite close to a 3700, and have great battery life. The only exception is they seem to do poor in benchmarks. The pentium-M in the link though isnt in a laptop though, but rigged into a PC, so basicly which ever one has the best features, more ram, better video card should be your choice.

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by keman on 06/09/05 03:05 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[HansGruber]

A Pentium-M at 2133MHZ, depending on the situation, ranges in performance from a FX-55

Not without hefty overclocking.

[offtopic]
And why the hell people think Dothan is great ?
It's overclocked and compared to NON overclocked CPU's !
[/offtopic]

 

[HansGruber]

I meant the performance.

 

[HansGruber]

WAR ?

At 2133Mhz a Dorthan is like FX-55 if not better and it's no overclocked. i.e. runs at default voltage

I wouldn't say that much, more like slightly overclocked it equals in some apps, mostly games.
In some apps it trails miserably, it's poor FPU being often the reason.

And we all know how little power those P-M uses compared to Turion

Difference is ENORMOUS when compared to Pentium, HUGE when compared to AMD64, FX etc.

But Turion is not that far behind, about 5-10W depending on the model in question.
The biggest difference comes from overall system consumption - when compared to Turion - and NOT from CPU.
We have to remember that currently P-M laptops are more mature than Turion, but the cap is closing.
Turion also supports 64bits, P-M does not.

I must say that P-M is by far the best CPU Intel currently has, and it's best mobile CPU that there is if 32bits is enough.

IMO P-M is also overrated, mostly becouse with it you can have really high performance in games when OC:ed.
And i don't think it's fair to compare OC:ed P-M to non OC:d systems.

 

[Keman]

I wouldn't say that much, more like slightly overclocked it equals in some apps, mostly games.
In some apps it trails miserably, it's poor FPU being often the reason.

Considering its a Mobile processor, and it nears a FX55 with a fraction of the energy use and heat output, thats rather good.

Turion also supports 64bits, P-M does not.

As for 64 bit, until Windows 64 bit edition is released and some real drivers and full hardware support is out, plus that windows 64 bit is going to cost an addition $130 (last I saw it preorder priced.) to the system cost, it really isn't viable.

IMO P-M is also overrated, mostly becouse with it you can have really high performance in games when OC:ed.
And i don't think it's fair to compare OC:ed P-M to non OC:d systems.

Complaring an overclocked system to an non overclocked system isn't fair, but what people have been trying to show is it overclocks so well at default voltages while still remaining cool.

 

[P4Man]

>As for 64 bit, until Windows 64 bit edition is released and
>some real drivers and full hardware support is out, plus that
> windows 64 bit is going to cost an addition $130 (last I saw
>it preorder priced.) to the system cost, it really isn't
>viabl

On what planet have you been living ? Windows64 *is* out, from all reports I've seen, driver support is quite reasonable if you don't have any exotic or really old hardware, and the price delta is zero, since you can trade a copy of XP32 for a copy of XP64 (both XP Pro I think).

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