Trying to decide on M Dothan 1.6 or keep the 2400+ Mobile

[dnuggett]

Ok, current setup is a 2400+ Mobile non oc'd.

I am looking at a M 1.6 with a socket 478 board (P4P800SE) and a CT-479 conversion. If I bump the M up to say 2.2, 2.3 (being realistic) am I getting any real performace gains over the 2400+ Mobile assuming everything else stays the same? (i.e. RAM amount)

My gut tells me there is a nice boost if I switch.

BTW... I am looking at performance from the perspective of a gamer, and other CPU intensive tasks such as Rainbow Tables. I'll be upgrading further down the road to a brand new system, but I'm curious if this is a good go between.

 

[SickBeast]

So what's wrong w/ the A64 again?

 

[dnuggett]

Originally posted by: SickBeast
So what's wrong w/ the A64 again?

Not a thing. I am looking at an M and P4P800SE right now, and I will be upgrading to a dual core AMD system in the next year, either X2 or Opteron.

So what's wrong with answering the question at hand?

 

[SickBeast]

Originally posted by: dnuggett

Originally posted by: SickBeast
So what's wrong w/ the A64 again?

Not a thing. I am looking at an M and P4P800SE right now, and I will be upgrading to a dual core AMD system in the next year, either X2 or Opteron.

So what's wrong with answering the question at hand?

😀

Touché.

I'd keep the XP; I don't see a 1.6ghz Dothan doing much, especially if you want dual core anyway.

 

[Hard Ball]

Originally posted by: dnuggett

Originally posted by: SickBeast
So what's wrong w/ the A64 again?

Not a thing. I am looking at an M and P4P800SE right now, and I will be upgrading to a dual core AMD system in the next year, either X2 or Opteron.

So what's wrong with answering the question at hand?

Well, The PM will probably yield somewhere 25-40% of improvement in performance, provided that you OC it to the clocks that you think you can (I'm not so certain that every PM will be able to achieve that, it will definitely depend on your luck of the draw).

But keep in mind, that both systems are severely bandwidth constrained, and memory latency are still fairly high, so even if you get upto 40% bump in CPU throughput, the realistic increase in system performance will be much more limited, more in the ballpark of 10-20%.

 

[stevty2889]

My pentium-m 1.6 runs at 2.4ghz on stock voltage, I am on the P4P800-VM with the CT-479. With my X2 @2.75ghz, and my P4 @3.82ghz, all with the 6600GT at same speeds, they were all pretty close to eachother. The X2 was slightly faster than the pentium-m @2.4, and they were both faster than the P4 @3.82ghz. The pentium-m does quite well with gaming, so with a decent overclock, it will give you a nice boost over the XP mobile. I'd get the P-m 1.6 with 400mhz FSB, you can set the jumpers on the CT-479 for 533mhz FSB, so you'll always be running at 2.13ghz. I have to use clockgen for my overclocking since the VM board doesn't have any overclocking in the BIOS. 100% stable@2.4ghz stock voltage.