is this a good processor AMD Turion 64

Turion is amds mobile cpu. Stacked up against a P-M it not a powerful, and uses slightly more power. P-M is leading the pack when it come to mobile processors.

NB The P-M is not 64bit and lack SSE-3 support, (i belive this is still the case)
 
its a mobile processor. similar to the pentium M compared to the pentium 4.
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Indeed you are right although it should be noted the Turion64 doesnt have nearly the same battery life as the PentiumM (although this is offset by an equally improved performance jump .,.. this isnt to suggest however the Turion64 isnt a mobile-capable chip)

Stacked up against a P-M it not a powerful, and uses slightly more power. P-M is leading the pack when it come to mobile processors.
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Where are you hearing this? Have a look at http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2005/03/15/amd_turion_bench/
:)
 
The benchmarks show the turion is more powerful, the P-M must not have been running at full speed for the tests, keep in mind those benchmarks were run by AMD and look at the systems they used.
 
The benchmarks show the turion is more powerful, the P-M must not have been running at full speed for the tests, keep in mind those benchmarks were run by AMD and look at the systems they used.
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Agreed the benchmarks the artcle discusses (and are from amd) show the turion as more powerful, but the the implication of the author (and my mind) indicate P-M is more powerful.
The P-M is more powerful and uses less power, is that not correct?
 
In low power operation no, in full power conditions yes. A fully powered P-M is more powerful than the fastest P4 and Athlon64.
 
for sure and it'd still be cooler, but you can't really get a P-M to 'full power' in a laptop. I'd have to check the acrhitecture but I believe a Turion is basically low power A64
 
for sure and it'd still be cooler, but you can't really get a P-M to 'full power' in a laptop.
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ok good, i just wanted to make sure that i wasn't getting this wrong. Any idea what p was trying to say back in #5 ;)

I'd have to check the acrhitecture but I believe a Turion is basically low power A64
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that was my understanding
 
He just likes to argue. The systems they used in the benchmarks he linked are so mismatched it's rediculus. I mean I could make a series of benchmarks where a Pentium destroys an Althon 64 system, but that doesn't make it accurate.
 
LOL I love this hehe

It's fun to read and watch how this and that compete then adding in a 3rd party to the fight.

All I know is that Pentium-M 1.6Ghz is fast a 2.2Ghz P4

And Turion I have no clue bout it because I dont know how AMD rate its Core speed since both competitor has diffrent standard of spee rating.

I'm a AMD fan even I don't know much how it works but I know Intel like how I know what my ass looks like.
 
All I know is that Pentium-M 1.6Ghz is fast a 2.2Ghz P4
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It's faster. With Asus' S479->S478 converter you can run a P-M on certain Asus boards and for the most part it out performs the fastest Athlon 64
 
It's fun to read and watch how this and that compete then adding in a 3rd party to the fight.
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it wasn't a fight. At most it was a disagreement. More like a sharing of ideas.

With Asus' S479->S478 converter you can run a P-M on certain Asus boards and for the most part it out performs the fastest Athlon 64
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Yeah, and you can pick up some micro-atx's with 855 chipset (and S479). I looked into one for my media center but decided it was overkill, and way too expensive.
 
there was a benchmark on xbitlabs and aandtech and they overclocked a pentium 770 to 2.46 ghz and it was beating out the amd fx-57, pentium 6x0, pentium 5x0 in almost all categories.
 
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