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    CPU help!

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by squelchy451, Apr 28, 2009.

  1. squelchy451

    squelchy451 Notebook Consultant

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    Hi.

    Im looking for a budget laptop, and a lot of laptops have the Pentium Dual Core T4200 or the AMD Turion RM70. They both are 2GHz, 1 MB of Cache, the FSB is similar (AMD has a different architecture I know). Is there any real-life difference between these two?

    Should I go for a higher-frequency Pentium Dual Core or Turion (2 GHz or +) or a lower frequency Core 2 Duo (at or below 2GHz) ?


    Thanks
     
    squelchy451, Apr 28, 2009
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  2. flipfire

    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    Intel chips generally run cooler than AMD's
     
    flipfire, Apr 28, 2009
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  3. K-TRON

    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    It depends on your graphics needs as well.
    If you are sticking with an integrated solution, an AMD Turion matched with an ATi graphics card will be much better than an intel with an intel integrated solution.
    If you are doing gaming as well, generally most Intel laptops are paired with a higher end graphics card.

    Mark for mark, the RM70 is the better processor than the T4200. The Intel laptop has more edge room for upgrade but that is all.
    In my experience AMD's run cooler than Intel's
    However we cannot make the judgement yet, because we do not know the system considered.

    I am very upset with the hundreds of members on here who state AMD's run hotter than Intel's, when they do not. The temperature relies directly on two things:
    1) the heatsink used
    2) the temperature at which the BIOS tells the fans to come on.

    On the contrary to what flipfire mentioned, I can prove he is wrong.
    Dell E1505 verus Dell E1501.
    Intel versus AMD.
    Both have fan control, and each cpu has +- the same TDP
    Through I8KFANGUI the fans were pushed to full speed, the AMD turion ran significantly cooler than the intel core 2 duo.
    The Core 2 Duo was a faster processor, but it did run hotter.
    It is important to note, that both systems use the same heatsink and fan, so comparison wise AMD runs cooler.

    Most of the time though the AMD based system has less of a heatsink, so it may run hotter, however in true comparison AMD processors run cooler than Intel ones.
    *This is not always the case, as mentioned by BIOS and heatsink specs*

    You will find that notebook review is very biased towards Intel processors, for one people believe the media, whether true or false, and there is a significantly larger portion of laptops powered by Intel processors

    K-TRON
     
    K-TRON, Apr 28, 2009
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  4. squelchy451

    squelchy451 Notebook Consultant

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    Does the differences in the intel pentium dual core and AMD turion make a difference in real-life application?
     
    squelchy451, Apr 28, 2009
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    not really, unless u really do some heavy computations.
     
    NJoy, Apr 28, 2009
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