AMD or Intel

[Mag Gam]

Thanks for the replies!

It seems I would like to goto the AMD route because of the 64bit
compatabality (yea..I am a victim of Marketing).

What is the major difference between AMD64, Turion, and Sempron?




On 7/13/05, Rainer Duffner <rainer at ultra-secure.de> wrote:
> Astrodog wrote:
> 
> >>I purchased an e-machines AMD laptop in April and had nothing but
> >>problems with cooling.  The machine constantly over heated.  So, if you
> >>go the AMD route.  Make sure you do some research and specifically
> >>cooling issues.
> >>
> >>Ray
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >As a quick note, AMD Mobiles (Athlon64 Mobile, etc), tend to consume
> >less power than comparable Intels (Non-Mobile P4s, Mobile EEs, etc).
> >The overheating issue is most likely an e-machines issue, than an AMD
> >one, per se. That being said, one thing to note on the AMD line, is
> >that there really isn't a true low power mobile processor, either. Its
> >basically Athlon64, Turion(sp), or Semperon, none of which would
> >compare to say Pentium M, on power usage as far as I'm aware.
> >
> >
> 
> 
> I think that's not exactly true. (Well, the conclusion may not be wrong,
> but the reasoning is <g>).
> Turion64-CPUs consume about as much (or little) energy as Pentium-M chips.
> But due to better overall design, the total power-consumption of
> "Centrino"-laptops is some Watts less than that of Turion64-powered ones.
> 
> http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_12651_12658,00.html
> 
> 
> 
> Rainer
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