Pentium M processor speed question.
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I wanted to ask anyone who has either used various Pentium M processors or has knowledge of them a question :)
Is there a noticable speed difference between the 2Ghz, 2.13Ghz, and 2.26Ghz?
For standard use? Probably not. Like most processor speed differences you wont really notice unless you use a lot of cpu intensive applications and measure the difference. It usualy amounts to a few seconds (depending on the application) difference with that small of a gap in cpu speed.
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Great, I knew that was the case with regular P4 processors but I wasn't sure how Ghz measured up with the M processors and/or if I would be missing out on any features. I might actually go with the 2.26 in the end though even if the difference if only a few seconds, as with a few VSNETs open, office, visio, etc I use up a lot of RAM and processing power.
Thanks :)
Thanks :)
ive been very happy with the performance of my pentium M. its only 1400mhz, but ive never run into its limitations yet.
My laptop (which also happens to be used for everything now that im in uni, even a gaming machine!!!) has a 1.73 Pentium M in it, and it runs very well in my eyes, even runs most games smoothly, and id estimate about 30 seconds to startup (that's when having a few progs run at startup)
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Thanks guys :) The price difference between the 2Ghz and 2.26Ghz is $480 so if its a relatively small increase I'll probably stick with the 2.0
Definitely a smart idea to save the money. I'm running a 1.86, and my biggest bottleneck is hard drive access times. Whenever I notice a slowdown, I can look down and see the HDD LED lit up. (The only exception is Half-Life 2 at 1920x1200 with a very busy scene; that puts a good strain on the graphics card.)
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