Tech Link (Processor): Intel Pentium M 740 1.73GHz socket 479 Processor Review

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The Pentium M was Intel's first mobile processor designed from the ground up. Previously, mobile processor lines were just low power versions of the desktop variety... to disastrous results. When energy consumption is not an issue the Pentium 4 is perfectly adequate for desktops, however to stick it into a notebook is akin to running a hot plate off your laptop battery.

While the Pentium M processor is compatible with the Pentium 4 bus the CPU uses the Socket 479 form factor, so there is no intercompatibility. If you'd like to run a Pentium M processor in a desktop system, you'll have to get yourself a Socket 479 motherboard or small formfactor PC system.

Source:Intel Pentium M 740 1.73GHz socket 479 Processor Review

Tech Link (Industry): Merom kills 3DMark 2001 - Far beyond 60,000 points!

When Dothan craze started to fill a few nich sections of the enthusiast's personal lab, it's already clear that this architecture is really going to own lots of world record if it is given full chipset functionality in terms of PEG and RAM support. With such low frequency and front side bus, and running mostly on a single PCIe card due to lack of options (i.e. Asus P4GD1 runs on PCIe x16 with s478 and Asus CT-479 adaper), it was tough to catch up with a full blown desktop systems running on SLI and Crossfire.

But since the incarnation of i975x board with hacked NVIDIA drivers for SLI and official support for Crossfire, with Chipzilla promoting mobile-on-desktop concept, the slew of new benchmarks coming from these baby monsters are very devastating in terms of raw performance, multimedia applications, multi-threading and downright smooth computing experience.

Wow, if you still can believe it, check out NordicHardware's take on this babies:

We're having some trouble finding words to describe Merom at the moment. During the last few days we've reported about new records being set, but we were still missing a few benchmarks. We suspected that Kyosen, which has done it again, had some more results coming, this time of a completely new caliber. That it would be this kind of blowout we had no idea, not even our wildest imagination could've come up with something like this. Using Dry ice Intel Merom T7400 was pushed a bit over 3400MHz and with two water cooled X1900 cards Kyosen managed to achieve a completely devastating result with 3DMark2001, 62398 points!

Source:NH

Tech Link (Overclock): Intel Dothan 780 Overclocking with Liquid Nitrogen (LN2)

The crazy crustaceans did it again, and this time, they went to go on overclocking spree with a powerful Intel® Pentium® M 780 under LN2. Now that is one top of the line processor for some benchmarking spree. They hit some pretty crazy numbers of on the mini wonder!

Reminiscing the days, I remember everytime I'll post something over at TipidPC about such kind of overclocking, a lot of AMDroids and detractors would say whether something like that under a frozen liquid is usable, it's a waste, or just plainly stupid act. Well, how times changed when some AMDroids began putting their favor A* processor under such extreme condition as well and hitting crazy numbers and they were like "oh man, that is just wonderful and wickedly sick fast". These people really are dumb.

Another instance that I remember was when SLI was first released on the Tumwater platform (yes, it wasn't first released on A*'s platform you dimwit AMDroids, here's another linky), AMDroids and detractors were whining it's just a waste of money, and all such bullcrap. Well, until NVIDIA* decided to release it on A*, then the whole new song of how wonderful it is to have two great card as an uber gaming platform becomes AMDroids' favorite hymn. They sure are crap, the AMDroids.

As for the integrated memory controller? AMDroids, A* isn't the first to have thought it out and implemented it on the processor. Go research on Google about the Timna processor from Chipzilla. Anyway, I took too much time whining again, below is the linky:

Source:MadShrimps