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post #21 of 23
Of the 2 systems you posted the AMD system is a clear winer, it offers a 64 bit CPU and it also has a more powerfull video card by far, Think 625 points in 3dmark 05 for the 6150 vs 325 points for the GMA 950.

Performance wise the Core Duo and the Turion X2 are actualy almost identical for any given clock speed the Intel chip may be slightly faster but The last detailed benchmarks I saw showed a real world average difference of like 1~2% between the chips for the most part.

The Core 2 Duo is a huge improvment over the Core Duo, The Core 2 is 64 bit and clock to clock shows it being about 20% faster than the Core Duo or A64 X2 at any given speed.

It is worth taking note that AMD makes up some ground in 64 bit mode. Shrinking that 20% lead to about 16%.
post #22 of 23
I'd personally go for the AMD. As mentioned previously, lots of tests / benchmarks such as SuperPi are heavily pro-Intel benchmarks because they test your L2 cache size and nothing more. Check out this blog entry on why you have to be careful when trusting hardware benchmarks: http://scientiasblog.blogspot.com/20...rclocking.html
post #23 of 23
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Originally Posted by awingedpig
Core Duo will beat the X2 if only due to its massive L2 cache. How much is a DV2040? if over $1000, you may want to see if you can get a Core 2 Duo system instead.
L2 cache does effect performance but you do know that CoreDuo using 'sharing' cache data methold and doesn't have intergrated Memory controller, while AMD using intergrated Controller into CPU it will be faster with little cache. Core Duo using bigger cache with outside memory controller PLUS L2 cache sharing transport via RAM... Doh..
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