Athlon 64 4000 vs Turion 64 Mt40

I know the 4000 is a little faster i think its 2.6ghz and the mt40 is 2.2 ghz.

My question is. Would the performance difference for gaming on these two be worth sacrificing the battery life?

I figure the .4 in clock speed wouldnt make much difference. But im not sure about the Athlons Turion models.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Blah if you feel like it. Put the Athlon 64 4400 in the Mix.

A 4000+ desktop processor is 2.6 GHz 62 watts
The MT-40 is 2.2 Ghz 25 watts
Both have a 1 MB Cache

Another thing you didn't ask about, but is worth mentioning is that the new ML-44is a 2.4 Ghz 1 MB cache chip that uses 35 watts of power, possibly a closer match, but is very pricey and hard to find.

The ML-42 is 2.4 GHz with 512 kb cache (but performance wise very close to the ML-44 because the cache on a Turion or Athlon does not have a humoungus impact on performance, due to the onboard memory controller). The ML-42 is a cost effective way to add the clock cycles back to your gaming beast and still not hold a gun to the head of your battery.

I think your cost in battery performance is not worth the couple clocks you're picking up with the more power hungry Athlon Mobile over either of the Turion family ML or MT. I mean, it is a notebook, it probably has a big role in your life aside from gaming, namely mobility, and to work on the go you don't always have power available.

I would go with the Turion class then. Now you just need to choose between the MT-40 (which is what I prefer and use in my notebooks), the ML-42 or ML-44.

I could, but the only ODM that I know that makes a 19" notebook is:
Eurocom

Pretty incredible [i]dual 7800 GTX cards for 512 mb video memory! I think I was talking about complete ridiculousness with someone... I wish I would have known about this.[/i]

You can get up to 2 hours battery life with this optional 124 pound battery! Now THAT's portable!

sighn me up illl take TWO. batteries that is.