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Athlon XP-M vs mobile P4-M

post #1 of 11
7/26/03 at 4:11pm
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I am currently trying to decide between two laptops of roughly the same spec. Can someone please tell me which processor is faster or better ?


Athlon XP-M 2000+ vs P4-M 1.7
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post #2 of 11
7/26/03 at 9:29pm
this should help

http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1554&p=3
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post #3 of 11
7/26/03 at 11:26pm
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Thanks. But I heard the mobile variants of the desktop chip are quite different. The XP-M laptop uses FSB 266, but P4-M use 400 FSB, does this have any effect ?? Also the P4-M appears to have more L2 cache then XP-M, how do they fare ??
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post #4 of 11
7/27/03 at 12:43am
The XPs numbering coresponds very closely with the P4s clock speeds. In lower iterations(XP2400, 2.4Gig P4) the XPs seem to have the edge but as of late the P4s seem to be a bit faster(the margins of victory in either case are not large).

In short an XP2000+ will stomp a mud hole in a P4 1.7!
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post #5 of 11
7/27/03 at 12:43am
http://www6.tomshardware.com/mobile/20030102/index.html

http://www6.tomshardware.com/mobile/20030410/index.html

http://www6.tomshardware.com/mobile/20030507/index.html

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post #6 of 11
7/27/03 at 12:48am
The main differences in mobile XPs are just clock adjustment(power saving) whereas the P4s have those features but give up HT and the high FSB speeds of the desktop chips.
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post #7 of 11
7/27/03 at 10:33am
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Wow. XP-M powerful and yet so cheap comparing to P4-M.
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post #8 of 11
7/27/03 at 10:58am
Your not paying for all those comercials.
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post #9 of 11
7/27/03 at 10:56pm
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Thanks for the help. One last question, if I were to choose the P4-M (because it comes with a better graphics card) laptop, would I be able to upgrade the CPU to a desktop P4 or pentium-M ??
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post #10 of 11
7/27/03 at 11:58pm
No, you can't.
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post #11 of 11
7/28/03 at 9:19am
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haha, I guess thats only a small problem. The P4-M chip should be powerful enough. Looks like I will be getting a Toshiba 2410 series laptop. I hope a GF 420go vs GF 440go doesn't differ much in performance.
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