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Pentium M Processors in Desktops

Aug 16, 2005 10:25AM PDT

AOpen recently released an ATX motherboard with the 915G chipset and a PGA479 Pentium M socket. With the lightweight heatsink included with the motherboard (anything too heavy will damage the processor) a Pentium M Dothan Processor can easily be overclocked by more than .5GHz. Tom's Hardware has an article about this using an old 855Gme mobo (with an older heatsing from Asus) , and the 2.13GHz Pentium M overclocked to 2.6GHz easily beat the FX-55 in most benchmarks, especially games. Another site overclocked it to 2.8GHz which might beat the FX-57.

the 2.13GHz Pentium M costs as little as $450 and a 2.0GHz as little as $300. the only downside it that the motherboard itself costs about $250.

i just wanted your opinion on overclocking the Pentium at the cost of a more expensive motherboard of simply buying a highend heatsink for a 3500 Athlon 64 and overclocking that.

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well
Aug 16, 2005 10:48AM PDT

i've read that article before and i would say that the pentium m was really only designed for sff use and for media center pcs. why? the pm's were made for laptops too increase battery life, reduce power usage, and create less heat which is why to "ported" it over to desktops, for the quiet cooling needed and the less heat.

the pm was not designed for gaming in mind, where as the amd 64's are (to people i mean) so i would keep the amd and remember that everything overclocks different.

konny

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Aug 16, 2005 11:34AM PDT