Here's an article over at Tom's Hardware Guide all about the Pentium M,
including their latest benchmarks using the ASUS Socket Adapter (M on the
desktop).
In my opinion, the Pentium M is the best processor currently available, better
than any P4 or Athlon FX. Take a look, if the Pentium M hasn't caught your eye
yet, maybe it will this time. Make sure you look at the synthetic benchmarks and
power dissapation, the Pentium M doesn't have nearly as much to work with as the
others here, but it's still keeps up and takes home victory after victory.
I totally agree with you about Pentium M is the best processor so far. It
consumes so little power and its performance per clock is just amazing. It would
be nice if MB manufacteur would release desktop board for Pentium M. Intel
should also add 64 bit support for it. Penitum M would also be a great processor
for moving into dual core since it consume little power (relatively speaking).
Both Aopen and DFI have released Pentium M (socket 479) motherboards, but
they're expensive and have limited features. The best desktop implementation of
the Pentium M is currently the Asus socket adapter for socket 478 mb's.
Quote by KazenoKoeBoth Aopen and DFI
have released Pentium M (socket 479) motherboards, but they're expensive and
have limited features. The best desktop implementation of the Pentium M is
currently the Asus socket adapter for socket 478
mb's.
Oh I never knew that they have those boards. I guess I didn't follow it close
enough. I really wish it would be come some sort of mainstream processor for
desktop though. Intel may have a chance against AMD in that case.
I have always found THG to be biased towards Intel and I am not surprised to see
that this article mirrors that attitude.
The benchmarks they use are limited and could have been more varied (I suspect
they chose to use the ones in favour of the P-M). Many of the AMD chips they
chose to compare against are the older Newcastle core, not the Winchester or
even the newer Venice cores. That's not a fair comparison.
I would wait for reviews on the P-M from Xbitlabs and Anandtech. I personally trust their more
detailed and neutral reviews than Tom's. In fact, Anandtech has already written
one long
before THG released theirs.
A quick check of the title, "Dothan Over Netburst: Is The Pentium 4 A Dead
End?", reveals that the subject of the article was that of a comparison
between the Pentium 4 and the Pentium M, not Pentium M vs AMD's best. As for a
fair comparison, I'd worry about giving the Pentium M as much to work with in
terms of power and resources as the top AMD chips before you start complaining
about leaving out AMD's latest models of its flagship chip.
Here's an article over at Tom's Hardware Guide all about the Pentium M, including their latest benchmarks using the ASUS Socket Adapter (M on the desktop).
http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20050525/index.html
In my opinion, the Pentium M is the best processor currently available, better than any P4 or Athlon FX. Take a look, if the Pentium M hasn't caught your eye yet, maybe it will this time. Make sure you look at the synthetic benchmarks and power dissapation, the Pentium M doesn't have nearly as much to work with as the others here, but it's still keeps up and takes home victory after victory.
I totally agree with you about Pentium M is the best processor so far. It consumes so little power and its performance per clock is just amazing. It would be nice if MB manufacteur would release desktop board for Pentium M. Intel should also add 64 bit support for it. Penitum M would also be a great processor for moving into dual core since it consume little power (relatively speaking).
Both Aopen and DFI have released Pentium M (socket 479) motherboards, but they're expensive and have limited features. The best desktop implementation of the Pentium M is currently the Asus socket adapter for socket 478 mb's.
Oh I never knew that they have those boards. I guess I didn't follow it close enough. I really wish it would be come some sort of mainstream processor for desktop though. Intel may have a chance against AMD in that case.
I have always found THG to be biased towards Intel and I am not surprised to see that this article mirrors that attitude.
The benchmarks they use are limited and could have been more varied (I suspect they chose to use the ones in favour of the P-M). Many of the AMD chips they chose to compare against are the older Newcastle core, not the Winchester or even the newer Venice cores. That's not a fair comparison.
I would wait for reviews on the P-M from Xbitlabs and Anandtech. I personally trust their more detailed and neutral reviews than Tom's. In fact, Anandtech has already written one long before THG released theirs.
Regards.
A quick check of the title, "Dothan Over Netburst: Is The Pentium 4 A Dead End?", reveals that the subject of the article was that of a comparison between the Pentium 4 and the Pentium M, not Pentium M vs AMD's best. As for a fair comparison, I'd worry about giving the Pentium M as much to work with in terms of power and resources as the top AMD chips before you start complaining about leaving out AMD's latest models of its flagship chip.