Need a CPU suggestion please

[donnagual]

Going to buy a new notebook computer, and will be going to the dark side and getting a Pentium CPU. The thing is, I know little about Pentiums as I have always gone the AMD path.

Can someone help me pick a CPU? I am looking for the best "bang for the buck". I want good performance and low cost. I will be doing some mild gaming (will have the geforce GO 7800GTX).

Do I want PentiumM? Which one? Pentium4? Which one?

Thanks in advance!

 

[RichPLS]

IMO the best is Intels Core Duo

 

[luminaris]

Well, if your going to get anything with the 7800GTX on it, your going to pay more of a premium for it.

I would recommend a Dell core duo, Inspiron 9400 series. When I bought my 9300 (last years model) I went into their outlet and found mine which was reconditioned but, it's just like brand new with a full warranty and I only paid 973 bucks for mine. It doesn't have the 7800GTX, instead, it has ATI X300 which games fairly well but I don't really game on it.

I would look at Dell anyway as they are probably going to have the best bang for your buck. Dell laptops are very good machines. Don't let anybody tell you different.

 

[Fungalberry]

Going to buy a new notebook computer, and will be going to the dark side and getting a Pentium CPU. The thing is, I know little about Pentiums as I have always gone the AMD path.

Can someone help me pick a CPU? I am looking for the best "bang for the buck". I want good performance and low cost. I will be doing some mild gaming (will have the geforce GO 7800GTX).

Do I want PentiumM? Which one? Pentium4? Which one?

Thanks in advance!

Don't get the 7800GTX. You can get the 7900GT for about $100 less. The 7900GT is also better than the 7800GTX. Sorry, can't help you with the Pentium processor choice, don't know enough about them to be of any real help.

 

[donnagual]

Don't get the 7800GTX. You can get the 7900GT for about $100 less. The 7900GT is also better than the 7800GTX.

I don't think such a card exsist yet. We are talking about the "go" series of graphics for notebook computers here. Unless the GO 7900GT came out and I missed it?

 

[angry_ducky]

Going to buy a new notebook computer, and will be going to the dark side and getting a Pentium CPU. The thing is, I know little about Pentiums as I have always gone the AMD path.

Can someone help me pick a CPU? I am looking for the best "bang for the buck". I want good performance and low cost. I will be doing some mild gaming (will have the geforce GO 7800GTX).

Do I want PentiumM? Which one? Pentium4? Which one?

Thanks in advance!

Don't get the 7800GTX. You can get the 7900GT for about $100 less. The 7900GT is also better than the 7800GTX. Sorry, can't help you with the Pentium processor choice, don't know enough about them to be of any real help.

I wasn't aware that there's a 7900 for laptops. The Dell laptops don't come with Pentium 4's (thank God; it's a desktop CPU); the 2GHz Pentium M that comes standard on the Inspiron XPS is faster than any Pentium 4; don't waste your $500 getting the 2.26GHz one. Spend some of that money to upgrade the RAM to 2GB, and keep the rest. Oh, yeah; Dell laptops are pretty nice machines.

 

[angry_ducky]

Don't get the 7800GTX. You can get the 7900GT for about $100 less. The 7900GT is also better than the 7800GTX.

I don't think such a card exsist yet. We are talking about the "go" series of graphics for notebook computers here. Unless the GO 7900GT came out and I missed it?


Damn. You beat me to it . I think the 7900Go will come out pretty soon; probably the next 1-2 months.

 

[donnagual]

So far, this is the system I am looking at:

Pentium(R) M 760 (2GHz/2MBcache
Progress MXG (Intel 915PMchipset/17WSXGA+/GeForce Go 7800 GTX)
PC4300 DDR2 1GB 533MHz(512MBx2)
80GB ATA100/5400rpm
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

210,000 Yen..... about.... $1,800 US or so.

 

[Lord-Ilpolazzo]

Going to buy a new notebook computer, and will be going to the dark side and getting a Pentium CPU. The thing is, I know little about Pentiums as I have always gone the AMD path.

Can someone help me pick a CPU? I am looking for the best "bang for the buck". I want good performance and low cost. I will be doing some mild gaming (will have the geforce GO 7800GTX).

Do I want PentiumM? Which one? Pentium4? Which one?

Thanks in advance!

out of curiosity why have you decided that ur only gonna get a laptop with an intel processor?

 

[luminaris]

There ya go. That's a good build. The only thing I would do different is see if you can get a faster hard drive. One that runs 7200 RPM instead of 5400. That makes quite a difference in performance for a laptop believe it or not. Otherwise, that's a great build and that's what I would get.

 

[donnagual]

out of curiosity why have you decided that ur only gonna get a laptop with an intel processor?

The company from which I MUST buy from (out of my hands) is not currently offering any decent AMD based notebooks.

 

[donnagual]

There ya go. That's a good build. The only thing I would do different is see if you can get a faster hard drive. One that runs 7200 RPM instead of 5400. That makes quite a difference in performance for a laptop believe it or not. Otherwise, that's a great build and that's what I would get.

Done. Cost an extra $50 for the same size HDD at 7200rpm.

 

[luminaris]

Good deal man. You won't go wrong with that machine. It's a similar build to mine other than the graphics and mine has a slower CPU. Nice choice