Pentium M Banias and Dothan

[Archman]

Hi peeps.

Current setup:

Inspiron 600m
1.4 GHz Pentium M (Banias Core)
1.25 GB memory

I was wondering what would be better, to a 2.0 GHz Dothan Pentium M, or adding another stick of 1GB memory to have 2GB in total?

Just looking to cut down times for video encoding, dvd backups, and video editing. Thanks

 

[BrownTown]

Dothan uses a 533mhz FSB and Banais uses a 400mhz FSB, so i wouldn't think you could just switch one for the other.

 

[Archman]

read Anandtech: Intel's 90nm Pentium M 755: Dothan article. The Banias is the older pentium M, and the Dothan is the newer core with less draw and a bigger cache.

 

[stevty2889]

Originally posted by: BrownTown
Dothan uses a 533mhz FSB and Banais uses a 400mhz FSB, so i wouldn't think you could just switch one for the other.

There are 400mhz FSB Dothans as well..

 

[stevty2889]

Originally posted by: Archman
Hi peeps.

Current setup:

Inspiron 600m
1.3 GHz Pentium Banias M
1.25 GB memory

I was wondering what would be better, to a 1.7 GHz Dothan Pentium M, or adding another stick of 1GB memory to have 2GB in total?

Just looking to cut down times for video encoding, dvd backups, and video editing. Thanks

Video encoding/editing will benifit more from a faster CPU than from the added ram.

 

[Archman]

Originally posted by: stevty2889

Originally posted by: Archman
Hi peeps.

Current setup:

Inspiron 600m
1.3 GHz Pentium Banias M
1.25 GB memory

I was wondering what would be better, to a 1.7 GHz Dothan Pentium M, or adding another stick of 1GB memory to have 2GB in total?

Just looking to cut down times for video encoding, dvd backups, and video editing. Thanks

Video encoding/editing will benifit more from a faster CPU than from the added ram.

Thanks for the tip I wasn't too sure just because it was an extra Gig of ram. Cheers!

 

[Ayah]

Newer CPU.

 

[AgonxOC]

I have a Dothan Rig. Check the sig...


Alex

 

[stevty2889]

Originally posted by: AgonxOC
I have a Dothan Rig. Check the sig...


Alex

So do I but I don't see how that answers the original posters question in any way shape or form, especialy in a thread thats been dead for almost 2 months..

 

[stevty2889]

oops double post

 

[AgonxOC]

Dude I was so bored I just started to post stuff without thinking....

The P-M can be used as long as the FSB is kept the same. A Pentium M 755 should do the tric. 1 GB is enough. If the mobo supports 533MHz, then it would be OK to go to a 760 which is a nice beast....


Alex

 

[Archman]

So what about the 533 MHz Dothans out there (known as Sonoma I think). Could this be upraded to instead of the Dothan?

I am assuming that it will work, but be limited to 100MHz fsb because of the bus speed in the Dell 600m, so it won't really be used to its potential. Or is there a way around that??? ;P

 

[RamIt]

If u have the sonoma chipset in the 600m you can take a 400fsb dothan processor and run it at 533. I have a 1.7 400 fsb pentium m in my xps gen2 running at 2.26 ghz with out any problems.

 

[Archman]

It has the Intel 855PM chipset.

I understand about overclocking, running the multipliers and fsb... been doing that since Pentium I CPUs.

Will a sonoma cpu work in a Dell Inspiron 600m with the Intel 855PM chipset? Will the sonoma only be running on the 400 MHz fsb due to the limitations of the notebook? Or will it not be supported at all?

 

[stevty2889]

A 533mhz FSB chip will not work on the 855 chipset.

 

[Archman]

stevty2889, thank you for the heads up

 

[Zap]

Besides FSB support, you also need BIOS support. I had a Dell Latitude D800 with a Banias chip and was considering upgrading. From the Dell Community Forums, I determined that there was a certain revision of the notebook that combined with the latest BIOS can support 400MHz FSB Dothans. Older BIOS and notebook revisions couldn't.