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I think this processor'll be good as a desktop solution, when paired with ASUS's little converter thing.
http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=2382
Despite a few flaws in it's architecture
It does extremely well in games (On par with the FX-55)
Discuss (don't troll or flame please).
-The Pentium Guy
http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=2382
Despite a few flaws in it's architecture
That being said, despite being paired with enough memory bandwidth, the Pentium M continues to fall behind in desktop performance. As a gaming platform and as a general purpose/office machine, the Pentium M does fairly well, but it is in content creation, workstation and media encoding applications that the Pentium M continues to fall behind. Part of the problem is that the Pentium M needs clock speed to compete, which we saw when we overclocked it up to 2.56GHz. But even at 2.56GHz, the Pentium M wasn't a competitive CPU when it came to tasks like media encoding, indicating that if the Pentium M is to succeed on the desktop, it's going to need some architectural improvements.
It does extremely well in games (On par with the FX-55)
At an overclocked state (by only ~400 Mhz) it shows considerable increase in performance.At this year's Spring IDF, Mooley Eden (head of the design team who brought us the original Pentium M) diagramed the architectural features that would be improved in the next version of the Pentium M (code-named Yonah). All of the architectural improvements, outside of the move to dual core, involved SSE and floating point performance - the two major weak points of the Pentium M's present day desktop performance.
Discuss (don't troll or flame please).
-The Pentium Guy