Is my old laptop now faster than current ones?

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geek0x00

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I have a 3-year-old HP Pavillion dv2000, that came with a AMD Turion 64 X2 2.00 GHz microprocessor. To keep it up to date, I periodically overclock the CPU a little at a time, and presently it is running at 2375 MHz. My question is that whether my AMD Turion CPU will do more FLOPS or MIPS than a mobile Intel Core i3 clocked at 2.20 GHz. If so, I'll stick with my computer for the moment...
P.S. I seem to notice that currently manufacturers focus on ultra-low-voltage when it comes to CPU's not ultra-high-speed...which makes CPUs even slower...
 
geek0x00 said:
I have a 3-year-old HP Pavillion dv2000, that came with a AMD Turion 64 X2 2.00 GHz microprocessor. To keep it up to date, I periodically overclock the CPU a little at a time, and presently it is running at 2375 MHz. My question is that whether my AMD Turion CPU will do more FLOPS or MIPS than a mobile Intel Core i3 clocked at 2.20 GHz. If so, I'll stick with my computer for the moment...
P.S. I seem to notice that currently manufacturers focus on ultra-low-voltage when it comes to CPU's not ultra-high-speed...which makes CPUs even slower...
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CPU speed is not the end-all comparison when dealing with performance. Newer CPUs have a different internal architecture which allows more computing capacity, so you don't need a super-high clock in order to see similar results compared to older ones. That's part of why you see the low-voltage chips now - comparable processing power at lower speeds = lower power consumption; lower power consumption = longer-lasting batteries.

The days of a direct Ghz comparison are over, the i3 will be quicker.
 
But I do know that my computer does better in FLOPS than the new AMD ultra-low-voltage 1.2 GHz CPU...and that my friend's i3 computer is slower than mine in number crunching and Super Pi.
Edit: also heard that Intel sucks in terms of MIPS/GHz. And don't forget that I have also overclocked the PCIe controller from 2500 to 3000 MHz, and my computer has 3 gigs memory while the laptop I was comparing to has 2 gigs.
 
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geek0x00 said:
And don't forget that I have also overclocked the PCIe controller from 2500 to 3000 MHz, and my computer has 3 gigs memory while the laptop I was comparing to has 2 gigs.
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How could we forget when you never mentioned it in the first place?

Anyways, your comparison between processors is invalid. Imo, its very hard to accurately compare an Intel chip to an AMD chip, when installed, since they have to use entirely different setups. With that said, your friends laptop may have a superior processor, but the manufacturer could have skimped in other places, thus bottlenecking the whole system..

You can't just base the performance of a computer on the processor it has.There are a lot of other factors to consider..OS, RAM type/speed/size, hard drive speed etc..

All-in-all to answer your question. An i3 should be faster than your Turion, at stock speeds. Although I'm not an expert on the i3 series. Perhaps someone can support or contradict my thoughts?..
 
Intel has whooped amd's arse clock-for-clock ever since they release the Core 2 line. Pentium 4's were the ones with crappy performance.
 
Even if the i3 is better and faster than your Turion, that doesn't mean you should toss it and upgrade. If you are happy with the way its running, I say milk it til its dead, especially if it does what you need it too.
 
troncoso said:
even if the i3 is better and faster than your turion, that doesn't mean you should toss it and upgrade. If you are happy with the way its running, i say milk it til its dead, especially if it does what you need it too.
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qft
 
Troncoso said:
Even if the i3 is better and faster than your Turion, that doesn't mean you should toss it and upgrade. If you are happy with the way its running, I say milk it til its dead, especially if it does what you need it too.
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^+1. If you're not gaming, (like if you're doing something like loading an internet browser) it really matters what kind of hard drive or SSD you have. Although the i3 is a faster CPU, (guaranteed) that doesn't mean that the new laptop you get will have a much faster hard drive than your current one. My advice: if you're craving more gaming performance, get the new laptop, but if you just want firefox to load in half a second, get a new hard drive or SSD. Also try defragging, running CCleaner, and disabling startup programs via the run command "msconfig."
 
Then another question: is there any way I can replace my very crappy nForce INTEGRATED GPU with just 128 MB of vid. mem with a better one? Because when it comes to gaming, I can run Half-Life 2 at 640x480 with all settings low at 30fps and barely run Call of Duty 4 at 5 fps with settings super low. And my favorite game, the super realistic space sim Orbiter, goes to 1 fps when I turn on the atmospheric raytracing!

And a another: I have a friend with a computer with an Intel CPU clocked at 2.00 GHz that doesn't support x86-64. Then it'll be slower, right?
 
geek0x00 said:
Then another question: is there any way I can replace my very crappy nForce INTEGRATED GPU with just 128 MB of vid. mem with a better one? Because when it comes to gaming, I can run Half-Life 2 at 640x480 with all settings low at 30fps and barely run Call of Duty 4 at 5 fps with settings super low. And my favorite game, the super realistic space sim Orbiter, goes to 1 fps when I turn on the atmospheric raytracing!

And a another: I have a friend with a computer with an Intel CPU clocked at 2.00 GHz that doesn't support x86-64. Then it'll be slower, right?
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Replacing onboard graphics isn't really an option and your friend's Intel CPU has to be at the very least x86 compatible.
 
If you want to game, get a new laptop. That's as simple as that. Though, for more video memory you can dedicate some of your ram to vram. How to do that.....well....I forgot. Haha, but it can be done.
 
you most likely cannot replace the integrated card, sadly, i thought i could on my stepnote, which has the same cpu as you do now, but the graphics card is integrated with the motherboard, tho it is a nicer than integrated chipset.
 
If you need to run games smoothly, then I think an i3, i5, or i7 laptop is your best bet. If you don't need portability, though, get a desktop. Much more performance per $$$. Also, video memory size isn't one of the main factors of graphics card performance: memory access speed is the biggest performance consideration of a graphics card IMO. With your integrated GPU, memory access speed is VERY slow since it has to share with your RAM. If you're going to get a laptop for gaming, make sure to get one with a discrete GPU.
 
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