Posts by Speed_Mechanic

Quote: Originally Posted by bocephas70 I am scheduled to deploy to the desert in a few months. Can someone suggest a good notebook for me? I need something small, light weight, and sturdy. It needs to be able to...

You should be able to.

On Monday, AMD announced the soon-to-be-available 3400+ Mobile (62W) Athlon 64. The AMN3400BIX5AR should be a 'ClawHammer' core (1MB L2 Cache) processor running a stock 2.2GHz (200MHz x 11) at 1.4V with a 62W TDP. It likely has...

July 18th may bring a drop in prices for certain Intel mobile processors. August 22nd is the date for an Intel price drop for most desktop/mobile processors.

1: A64 DTR - 3000+ to 3400+ (81.5W TDP) 2: Socket 754 - Single Channel Memory Controller 3: Should be about 470MHz Core / 250MHz Memory (500MHz DDR)

35W 2700+ (1.6GHz w/ 512KB L2) and 2800+ (1.8GHz w/ 512KB L2) have been available for a while now.

Quote: Originally Posted by Sharakkhal I'm not as confident that the AMD64 socket currently used in laptops (754, is it?) will last that long, with sockets 940 and 939 out there, as well. Especially with 939 offering...

Pentium-M processors (Banias & Dothan) use a differant pin-layout then current Socket 478 Pentium 4's, and cannot be used interchangably. While only having 478 pins, Pentium-M's require Intel's Socket 479.

Quote: Originally Posted by mayaman2 is this cache present on the acer ferrari 3200's processor. I have read that it only has 512 kb of cache. Acer Ferrari's 3200 uses AMD's low-power mobile Athlon 64, which...

Quote: Originally Posted by YellowC4S IMHO, It's also lacking the 9700 GPU w/256mb DDR and the FX-53... just my .02 Kevin AMD has decided to stick with Socket 754 for use in mobile applications as far...