Chee Posted April 7, 2005 Share Posted April 7, 2005 And their Mobile Pentium CPUs are pretty good too, in terms of power consumption vs processing power. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Deeswift Posted April 7, 2005 Share Posted April 7, 2005 Goodbye, Intel. IBM use intel processors in their e, x and i series. intel must be doing something right!!!<{POST_SNAPBACK}> You sure they don't have a contract with Intel and are not allowed to use AMD? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Deeswift Posted April 7, 2005 Share Posted April 7, 2005 Hey Dee, does that driver you posted fix the problem of CnQ not kicking the processor into full speed when you need it? Cos right now I'm running CnQ but it seems the multiplier is always stuck at x5, rather than at x10, even though I'm doing processor intensive tasks (like encoding DivX video). I'm using Core Center to see my FSB multiplier, btw.<{POST_SNAPBACK}> As far as I know you need trhe driver mate, not sure if C 'n' Q will work properly without it. Give it a try and see how it goes! I don't think you'll see the multi actually change, though. Core Centre is atrocious! Don't OC via core centre, if you OC at all. It's known for crashing the system and also displaying temps wrong. Maybe a good idea to do some benchmark tests. Try running Aquamark 3. You should be hitting around 45,000 points with your setup. If you reach a score like that, your CPU and C'n'Q is doing it's job. nd their Mobile Pentium CPUs are pretty good too, in terms of power consumption vs processing power. Yeah, not bad. But I did read a review recently of some Pentium-M chip running on a desktop board which got whupped by AMD. There was a lot of hype surrounding these chips, and people thought that once they got decent desktop mobo's it was all over for AMD. That really wasn't the case at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted April 7, 2005 Share Posted April 7, 2005 There's a new M on the way......... http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=2366 I thought the M was gonna be decent in a desktop, but it has limitations. There is no better processor if you're buying a laptop though and after all, that's what it's designed for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Deeswift Posted April 7, 2005 Share Posted April 7, 2005 It's still a great chip, just not quite as great as most thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripple Posted April 7, 2005 Share Posted April 7, 2005 AMD's got a new mobile 64 chip coming up as well, at least that's what their representative told me.He said it'll kick the Pentium M's ass, but then again, he is the AMD representative. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Deeswift Posted April 7, 2005 Share Posted April 7, 2005 It will. Trust me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted April 7, 2005 Share Posted April 7, 2005 Fanboy alert! The benchmarks I've seen for the Turion are not that impressive for a 64bit chip and the battery life is in question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Deeswift Posted April 7, 2005 Share Posted April 7, 2005 FACT alert. EDIT: I base my statement on the fact that I trust AMD to come up with the goods. As always. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2ndhand Posted April 7, 2005 Share Posted April 7, 2005 You sure they don't have a contract with Intel and are not allowed to use AMD? they do actually they even dropped their own line of AWESOME chips (were they cyrix or something like that) to use intels. at the time there was no competition so they went with intel. our domain controller (as400 with 2 windows nt cards in it) uses ONE old p2, or an early p3. as400 just manges shit better i guess. its a huge black box. like knight rider if he was a dalek Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Guest Deeswift Posted April 11, 2005 Share Posted April 11, 2005 Jeez. The new A64 3200+ Venice Core. http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=127 Athlon64 close to 3 Ghz. If the pricing stays as it is this is a boomin processor for the money (approx. £140). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mixologist Posted April 11, 2005 Share Posted April 11, 2005 Dee, yes the amd 64 mobile is great for processing even on a desktop, but the battery life just isn't there, like i said before this hp had only 2 hours of battery life that's really not alot. The turion was supposed to be a bit better but again amd focused alot more on the sepcs and forgot bout the battery life so it still doesn't really out perform the pentium m. Also AMD didn't even use a fair benchmark, so it made it look like it whomped the pentium m, even though it actually didn't. i'm of course only talking bout laptops Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Deeswift Posted April 11, 2005 Share Posted April 11, 2005 Sure, but for the next line of chips I think they will improve a lot. Anyway, dual cores are here soon. Sick! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mixologist Posted April 12, 2005 Share Posted April 12, 2005 yea i just looked at the sempron like wt hell 70 quid for that, and it performs better than all the 140 quid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Deeswift Posted April 12, 2005 Share Posted April 12, 2005 Don't forget it's highly overclocked. At stock speeds it wouldn't do as well against A64, and when A64 is overclocked, we see shit like the new Venice Core 3200+ at close to 3 Ghz (with the right cooling). That's insane for a 2 Ghz chip. If you can reach OC's like that, you're beating Athlon FX chips. For £140! And the 90nm Venice revision E's will do 2.8 Ghz on 1.4 Volts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mixologist Posted April 12, 2005 Share Posted April 12, 2005 true, tell you what, if i ever get some dough i'm gonna ask you waht to get dee and how to do everything cause all this computer crap does my head in Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Deeswift Posted April 12, 2005 Share Posted April 12, 2005 Cool, I will help as much as I can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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