Not many people realize that the Turion 64 can also be used in this way. AOpen i915GMm-HFS 2nd Gen Pentium M desktop.AOpen EY855-II Pentium M SFF barebones system.AOpen i855GMEm-LFS and DFI 855GME-MGF socket.M for desktop by reviewing no fewer than five products designed specifically Segment at the moment….” Since then, we’ve helped popularize the Pentium Think I’d chew off my arm for a Centrino MB and processor solution for the desktop Theįirst reference in the forums appeared back as early as mid-2003 when forum There was early interest in Pentium M for the desktop right here at SPCR. Intel’s view for a long time was that the Pentium M and socketĤ79 are part of the laptop-specific Centrino platform and should be supported Bringing Pentium M to the desktop required the interestĪnd sustained effort of companies such as AOpen and DFI, who did not have official The Pentium M uses a pin array that looks like it shouldįit in a standard socket 478, but its configuration is different and it requiresĪ socket 479 board to work. Thanks to a growing number of motherboards and Small Form Factor systems designed It’s widely known that the Pentium M can be used to power a desktop system Have a lot to offer in terms of performance per watt. Intel’s Pentium M processor (part of the “Centrino”īrand) is probably better known than AMD’s Turion 64, but both Market, where low power consumption translates into long battery life as wellĪs low noise. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the mobile processor Still a big step below the alter of high performance, but at least the parameter Performance-per-watt as one of their competitive benchmarks ° High efficiency power supplies are now de rigeur, and Intel and AMD have added Hardware manufacturers have also recognized the importance of reducing power Using parts designed for the laptops (such as HDDs and CPUs), which consume minimal.
Even the best heatsinks on the market struggle toĬool the hottest processors, and no power supply is immune from the efficiency In heatsinks and power supplies have made it easier to just slap together aįew parts to make a system that is reasonably quiet, but the basic problem,
With theĮxception of hard drives, the only sources of noise in a typical PC are fans,Īnd less heat means it’s possible to run fewer, slower and quieter fans. In the end, it’s still not a definitive piece on the subject, but we think it’s a good introduction and overview.īuilding a silent system is all about managing heat intelligently. What’s so hard about that? It’s what we thought too, but correctly documenting all the details turned out to be pretty challenging. Turion 64s work on many desktop socket 754 motherboards. The testing and writing took several weeks. The idea for the article germinated many months ago, but it’s taken all this time to assemble the samples, necessary components and new test gear to bring it to fruition. This article is one of the most demanding we’ve tackled at SPCR in quite a while. It’s a complicated, sprawling piece, far from being the last word on the topic (of Turion 64 on the desktop), but a good intro and overview. We examine the power efficiency, cost and implementation of Turion 64 ML44, ML40, MT40 and MT34 models, along side Athlon 64-3200+ and Intel Pentium M 770 CPUs. It seemed to take forever, but our article on running AMD’s mobile 64-bit CPUs on socket 754 desktop boards is finally done.