Merom same socket as Core Duo?

[Chris2wire]

EDIT: After having my question answered, Ive decided to edit my entire thread and ask my new question..

I want a setup that is upgradeable to Conroe later but comparable to X2 performance now.

Core Duo is comparable, but the socket is not the same as Conroe. The socket is the same as Merom; however, and supposedly you should be able to drop Merom right into a Core Duo socket.

My question is... Will Merom be an identical chip performance wise to Conroe, but made to be mobile? Or are there more differences that will make it inferior to Conroe?

 

[alimoalem]

20 --> 30fps, yes, it's noticable

100 --> 110fps, no, not noticable

most games have a gpu bottleneck so unless you have a good video card, i'm not sure the cpu will be bottlenecking you.

 

[secretanchitman]

Originally posted by: Chris2wire
In my attempt to choose the best upgrade path for now so as to not waste money on things that will be obsolete when Conroe arrives...

I've decided the Core Duo will be the best choice IF a current Core Duo mobo will work with Conroe. Everything I read says no... But Ive also read a few things about patches etc that may make it work.. Anyone know?

Also, the core duo performs slightly less than the X2 at exact clock speeds, ie 2.0ghz in the tomshardware test. Im assuming overclocked to 2.5ghz would have both performing the same compared to each other as they did at 2.0ghz...

The core duo lost in all benchmarks, but only around 5-12fps, and many were over 100fps as it was. Is this really noticeable? Perhaps this is a poor question, but... Enlighten me all you can.

EDIT: Argh, I see Core Duo uses a completely different socket than Conroe will... Darn.
Thanks

remember...conroe is the desktop chip and merom is the mobile chip. the core duo is a mobile chip using that aopen mobo which is a full atx designed for mobile cpus...

 

[Chris2wire]

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[Acanthus]

Merom is faster than core duo.

 

[RichUK]

Merom will have a slower system bus and memory bus than an equally clocked Conroe, also i believe the two cores (Conroe and Merom) are not identical and will not offer 4MB's of L2 cache as do some of the higher end Conroe chips.

The mobile platform will never surpass the desktop platform due to, too many restrictions.

I have a Core Duo "Yonah" processor in my laptop, this i hope to be able to change out for a Merom if a BIOS update is all that is required at the time.

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: RichUK
Merom will have a slower system bus and memory bus than an equally clocked Conroe, also i believe the two cores (Conroe and Merom) are not identical and will not offer 4MB's of L2 cache as do some of the higher end Conroe chips.

The mobile platform will never surpass the desktop platform due to, too many restrictions.

I have a Core Duo "Yonah" processor in my laptop, this i hope to be able to change out for a Merom if a BIOS update is all that is required at the time.

Also running a Yonah on the machine im typing on 😀