Need help selecting a CPU for a notebook

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DonNagual

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Opinions please. I need to buy a new notebook. I know little about the Pentium lineup. What is the best CPU these days for the dollar? I don't want the fastest CPU on the block, yet I will also be gaming on it (will have the geforce GO 7800GTX) and 1 Gig of ram.

I will be going to the dark side for my notebook, and using a Pentium so please, no AMD suggestions needed here.

The main priority here is VALUE. I need a good balance between high performance, and low price. Also, do I want the Pentium M series? Pentium 4? Which model?

Suggestions please!
 
Get anything with a Pentium-M or Core Solo/Duo as it's called now. Most of them will have the Centrino name (which consists of a chipset+cpu+wifi card).

Shame you decided not to look at the Turion-64 which is also quite good.
 
Unfortunately, the company I MUST buy from is not currently offering any Turion based systems. Believe me, that is the way I wish I could go.
 
I know, I know. Again, I wish I could go the AMD path, but I can not. My hands are tied people.

Pentium suggestions please.
 
Yeah, Pentium M, or Centrinos are really good. And actually, for gaming, Pentium M's and Centrinos are better than the Athlon mobile processors. Read the rivals article on Maximum PC.
 
I'm looking at this system now:

 ・Pentium(R) M 760 (2GHz/2MB cache
 ・Progress MTV (Intel 915PMchipset/17WSXGA+/Mobility Radeon X700)
 ・PC4300 DDR2 1GB 533MHz(512MBx2)
 ・80GB ATA100/5400rpm
 ・Mobility Radeon X700 128MB PCI Express x16/TV-Out/D-sub15
 ・SlimDrive(DVD±R8x/±RW4x/DVD8x)CD+DVD
 ・3D Sound onboard
 ・10/100Base LAN + IEEE802.11a/b/g wireless LAN
 ・56K modem
 ・stereo speakers
 ・17.0 widescreen (1440*900)
 ・WindowsXP Home Edition DSP
 ・mini IEEE1394a ×1/PCMCIA TYPEⅡ×1/USB2.0×4
 
spartanslayer said:
Pentium M, or Centrinos are really good. Pentium M's and Centrinos are better than the Athlon mobile processors.
Centrino is not a cpu, it's a package that consists of a Pentium-M cpu (or Core Solo/Duo), an Intel chipset & an Intel WiFi card. So a laptop with the Centrino logo will always have a Pentium-M in it.
 
Or this one:

 ・Pentium(R) M 760 (2GHz/2MBcache
 ・Progress MXG (Intel 915PMchipset/17WSXGA+/GeForce Go 7800 GTX)
 ・PC4300 DDR2 1GB 533MHz(512MBx2)
 ・80GB ATA100/7200rpm
 ・GeFore Go 7800 GTX GDDR3 256MB(256bit) PCI Express x16/TV-Out/DVI
 ・SlimDrive(DVD±R8x/±RW4x/DVD8x)CD+DVD
 ・3D Sound onboard
 ・1000Base GigabitLAN + IEEE802.11a/b/g wireless LAN
 ・56K modem
 ・stereo speakers
 ・17.0 wide screen (1680*1050)
 ・WindowsXP Home Edition
 ・mini IEEE1394a ×1/PCMCIA TYPEⅡ×1/USB2.0×4

About an extra $250 compared to the above system, the difference being the faster hard drive, screen resolution and the graphics card.

How is the CPU I am looking at? Anyone have one? Decent performance?

Totals about $1,800 US or so (and yes, it has the centrino label on it)
 
I would go with the second laptop due to it's 7.2k rpm drive something needed for gamming. Trust me with my laptop with all it's kick asz parts, I'm bottlenecked by the 4.2k rpm 8mb buffer drive.
 
Well, it looks like I got the right CPU.

I went with the Pentium M 760. It is a 2Ghz CPU and this laptop BEATS my desktop's 3DMark06 score. Incredible!

My desktop score score: 3344
Athlon64 3700+ 2.2Ghz
7800GT
1Gb ram

My new notebook score: 3412
Pentium M 760 2.0Ghz
7800GTX
1Gb ram

The CPU test were almost dead even between the Athlon64 3700 and the Pentium M 760, and the GPU score was obviously a little better on my notebook. But wow! Sweet little CPU. Thanks for all the help in this thread!!
 
go with the centrino Duo i currently have a Intel Centrino CoreDuo T2300 1.67GHZ in my Dell Inspiron E1505 and its awesome

Inspiron E1505
100GB SATA
1GB Dual Channel
Intel Graphics
Windows XP Media Center
15.4"
Media-Direct
Intel Centrino CoreDuo 1.67GHZ (not the fastest but it packs a punch)
 
AMDIsTheBest010 said:
go with the centrino Duo i currently have a Intel Centrino CoreDuo T2300 1.67GHZ in my Dell Inspiron E1505 and its awesome
did you read the previous post?

he already bought and recieved the laptop over a month ago

you may want to look at the dates next time ;)
 
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