CPU/Mobo Turion64 - a DuD ?

Sheriff · May 6, 2005

Here's an interesting Article on AMD's new Turion64 proccessor
http://www.gamepc.com/labs/print_content.asp?id=turion64

The new AMD procc. is clearly beaten everywhere(except the synthetic sandra) quite comprehensively by Pentium M, weather it be power consumption, Gaming Performance or Encoding Performance .
Take that AMD Fanboyz

hyeah: :tongue:

KingKrool · May 6, 2005

Well u may notice that it says that the Pentium M's outperform even regular A64s!!
Now I know that PentiumM is really good, but I have never heard of THAT b4.
AFAIK their performance is a tad lower on the gaming side due to fewer FPUs.

archish · May 6, 2005

yup heard many good things about PentiumM but I cannot use laptop processor for that reason

Aces170 · May 7, 2005

Pentium M is an awesome proccy, it should have debuted for the PC mainstream long back.

Crazy_Eddy · May 7, 2005

GamePC.com is a computer sales company, hence i wouldn't trust any of their reviews.

Here's a previous review by them comparing the P4 EE vs A64 vs Pentium-M.

http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content.asp?id=gmso&page=1

The benchies look a little fishy, although for one they're comparing the 400Mhz FSB versions of the Pentium M's while the Turion review uses the 533Mhz FSB version. Still, while looking at certain tests like the Sandra CPU Arithmetic Benchmark, the performance jump for the 400Mhz Pentium M to a 533Mhz one(with a bit of increase in clock speed) is a little unrealistic. The Maya - Zoo Render benchmark shows a startling drop from 124 seconds to 86 seconds.

Chaos · May 7, 2005

GamePC is biased

. Always was biased.

TheMask · May 7, 2005

looks like it.. i read elsewhere where ppl discussed how Doom3 n Q3 were missed from the benchmarks..

archish · May 7, 2005

TheMask said:
looks like it.. i read elsewhere where ppl discussed how Doom3 n Q3 were missed from the benchmarks..

I think these days we expect too much even from a lappy

hyeah:

~HeadShot~ · May 7, 2005

archish said:
I think these days we expect too much even from a lappy hyeah:

Errrr? What's that supposed to mean? Huh!

:bleh:

archish · May 7, 2005

~HeadShot~ said:
Errrr? What's that supposed to mean? Huh!:bleh:

Playing Q3A n Unreal on a lappy

Crazy_Eddy · May 9, 2005

archish said:
I think these days we expect too much even from a lappy

Well, its not necessarily about gaming on the laptop, we're trying to find how much potential the Pentium-M chip has considering it seems to be pretty capable for a laptop/low-powered/low-heat output processor.

~HeadShot~ · May 9, 2005

archish said:
Playing Q3A n Unreal on a lappy

I don't that's expecting too much from a lappy. In fact, a lappy of today's standards should be at least that powerful enough to run Q3A n UT!

hyeah: