A64 vs Pentium-M (Centrino)

[gYx]

clock-to-clock, which one is faster

[W1zzard]

centrino

[spectre440]

yeah, despite being somwhat of an AMD-fanboy, i'm gonna have to agree.
the pentium M's definantly take the cake when it comes to laptop CPU's.

[Aevum]

1st, Centrino is the plataform, chipset + wifi module + crapping software which use to hang windows when walking in to a VPN, NOT THE CPU ITSELF, the cpu, is either dothan(2mb l2 cache) or banias(1mb level 2 cache),

the pentium M is faster, but on the other hand, a socket 939 motherboard starts at around 70 bucks for a Asrock 939Dual-SATA2, and usualy has a avarage price of 150 bucks,

Pentium M motherboards start at around 200 bucks and have a avarage price of around 250, that leaves less cash for a processor, also, the pentium M is weaker when it comes to software optimizations such as SSE1-3 so it might be a better gaming cpu, but will lose in areas like video/audio encoding , image manipulation and others, history just seems to repeat itself, i find it funny that 2-3 years ago we use to say this about the athlons VS Pentium 4,

now, the real question is, are you building a desktop system or choosing a laptop,
if your building a desktop system, with the pentium M, be prepared to overclock to get good results, i would use what i save on the motherboard to buy a better Athlon64,

if your choosing a latop, theres no real competition to a Centrino laptop, the whole centrino plataform has the best performance and battery life specs,