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Pentium M in *9400*

post #1 of 4
12/1/07 at 9:11am
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Just out of curiosity has anyone tried this? I mean, the single core Pentium M, not Yonah or Meron. I'm asking because if it's possible to overclock the Pentium M using the pin-mod method by quite a bit, maybe it's actually faster to have a fast single core processor (1 x 2.6Ghz) rather than a slow dual core (2 x 1.8Ghz) for some games (most games do not take advantage of dual processors...)
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post #2 of 4
12/1/07 at 1:50pm
Not even close to being compatible. let alone the yonah and Meron CPUS are still faster processors given thier improved die size and design.
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post #3 of 4
12/1/07 at 3:20pm
And additional L2 Cache.
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post #4 of 4
12/1/07 at 10:49pm
And faster FSB, EMT64 support, more efficient use of the CPU per clock cycle, SSE3 support, and less power consumption. I guess that's what dave-p was trying to say by improved design though.

And even if the games can't use both cores, the operating system still has to run and it's multi process and multi thread, so it can leave the game to run in one of the CPU's almost all by itself. Not to mention almost every new game is optimized for multicore systems.
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