- Mar 21, 2004
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So, I have this old laptop here (HP ZV6000), I decided to take it apart and do a thorough cleaning because it was getting loud, I discovered (and recalled) that it has a full desktop capable socket 939, it currently houses a power hungry and hot newcastle 2.4 ghz single core CPU. on 130nm
Researching it I found it is NOT compatible with ANY duel core CPUs, only single cores.
wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athlon_64
Research has shown that my upgrade options are a winchester, Venice, or San diego...
I can find them on ebay with little trouble, but which to chose?
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articl...athlon64-venice_6.html
Xbit labs indicates that venice takes more power and makes more heat than winchester. But has slightly bigger cache and SSE3...
Is SSE3 worth anything? the only programs I know that use anything above SSE2 use only the INTEL implementation, and are not compatible with the AMD SSE3 (they are not exactly the same).
on load a 2.2ghz venice takes 55.9 watts while the winchester only 47.6 watts. a newcastle is 79.9 @ 2.2, and mine is 2.4 at a hefty 85.6 watts.
Going from 85.6 watt to a 47.6 watt CPU on a laptop should make a world of difference.
I haven't managed to find much info on san diego.
Researching it I found it is NOT compatible with ANY duel core CPUs, only single cores.
wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athlon_64
Research has shown that my upgrade options are a winchester, Venice, or San diego...
I can find them on ebay with little trouble, but which to chose?
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articl...athlon64-venice_6.html
Xbit labs indicates that venice takes more power and makes more heat than winchester. But has slightly bigger cache and SSE3...
Is SSE3 worth anything? the only programs I know that use anything above SSE2 use only the INTEL implementation, and are not compatible with the AMD SSE3 (they are not exactly the same).
on load a 2.2ghz venice takes 55.9 watts while the winchester only 47.6 watts. a newcastle is 79.9 @ 2.2, and mine is 2.4 at a hefty 85.6 watts.
Going from 85.6 watt to a 47.6 watt CPU on a laptop should make a world of difference.
I haven't managed to find much info on san diego.