Tl-50 vs T5450

I'm looking around, building a notebook from DELL for my gf. Looking at the Inspirons (1520), I was wondering what the MAJOR differences are between the cpu's:

AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-50

vs

Intel Core 2 duo T5450



Both have relatively the same speed (1.67ghz vs 1.6 ghz)
so where do they differ? if they do...

heat?
power consumption? battery life?
other?


thx


btw, what is the diff between hypermemory and FSB

 

The Intel will be superior in battery life, generate less heat and consume less power, as is in general with Intel vs AMD mobile processors.

 

This Intel is faster and cooler and less power hungry. The only reason to buy the AMD is to stay away from Intel GMA 950 if it is not 950 get Intel. If it is I don't like the TL-50 because it has 1/2 the L2 of all the other Turion's. 256KB per core compared to 512KB per core for TL-52 and up. Comparing L2 between Intel and AMD not so useful but in the same line does matter.

 

its not 950

well, considering the 70$ difference, (and my gf isnt a hard-core computer user) would the AMD be worthwhile... or would it be a mistake?


thx

 

The TL-50 is a good CPU for evaryday type uses. If you save the $70 fine choice. I assume every thing else is the same RAM,HDD except GPU. What are the GPU's?

Can you still get a 1520?

 

yes everything else is the same, except the GFX.

on the intel system its the X3100
on the AMD system its the ATI radeon x1270 hypermemory 128 mb (so 64mb dedicated, 64mb from system ram).


why wouldn't i be able to get a 1520?

 

If you're not gaming then the GPU really doesn't matter. I have an X3100 in my ThinkPad and it performs fine for my non-gaming uses.

You can't go wrong with either CPU. I'm partial to the C2D because of the above-mentioned reasons (cooler, less power consumption).

 

If the 1270 is anything like my 1150 which I think it is, the dedicated memory is reserved system RAM. If you can reserve 128MB (mine said 128 but I can actually do 256MB) than it doubles the size with traditional shared memory. So your 128MB will report as 256MB if you can reserve 256MB report as 512MB. You can adjust the amounts.


I thought 1520 was off their site?

 

Chaz does that extend to the 950 or do you have to draw the line some where? Just wanted to know.

 

well i don't think power consumption wise a Turion X2 is that much worse. My TL-60 laptop with a Dell 9 cell battery gets a good 4-5 hours of watching streaming videos of the net at 70-80% brightness.

 

Can you pull out your battery and find the mAH #, on these forums we always talk cells and very imprecise. Mine a 6 cell is 4800mAH.

Also my TL-52 is 31mW I think yours is 34mW.

 

the 9 cell is 85 Whr, have how to convert that into mAH, its been a while since i took EE or physics.

 

I can't tell you your mAH unless you give me your voltage. My 6 cell is 52 Whr so I guess I have less power per cell, oh well. It should list your mAH on battery. And I barely got thru H.S. so this math is not easy.

W X V=A

 

There won't be any serious gaming. Any gaming we will do has already been perferctly accomplished with a go6100 and a radeon 200m, so either the X3100 or the X1270 (ATI) are more then enough in terms of GFX power.


The only thing that REALLY matters in the end, is wether there will be a BIG gaming difference or not bewteen her notebook and mine.

I have a T7300 (2.0 ghz, 800mhz, 4mb l2 cache)
X3100 gfx
80 7200 rpm
2.5 gb RAM

she'll have:
TL-50 1.6 ghz
Radeon x1270 hypermemory
80gb 5400 rpm
2gb RAM


will there be any significant difference if we play ... Age of Empires III, dungeon Seige II or Starcraft together?

thx