Laptop CPU

[kremedios]

I have a Pentium M 1.73Ghz Processor in my Sony Vaio BX. I just want to compare it to Desktop CPUs for a bit. On the box of games at the back, it says requirements, i'm guessing this is for the desktop CPUs. What speed can my Pentium M achieve when compared to a desktop single core cpu?
Thanks

 

[Indy500]

I'd say it was comparable to P4s of double the clockspeed. Pentium M does more work per mhz.

 

[Rroff]

For gaming performance my brothers 2gig Pentium-M does slightly better (about 5%) than my old 3gig P4C Northwood - so your probably looking at performance around the same as a 3gig P4 (obviously theres some variance due to the HT support and or lack off depending on CPU).

 

[Mattus]

In a laptop, your gaming performance is gonna depend much more on the graphics chip than the CPU. A Pentium-M is a pretty capable gaming CPU.

 

[kremedios]

In a laptop, your gaming performance is gonna depend much more on the graphics chip than the CPU. A Pentium-M is a pretty capable gaming CPU.

Yeah problem is i only have a intel intergrated graphics chip

 

[Rroff]

which probably would haven been okish only it uses system memory instead of its own dedicated vram causing a huge performance hit... :S

 

[kremedios]

which probably would haven been okish only it uses system memory instead of its own dedicated vram causing a huge performance hit... :S

The chip i have is 128mb shared. If i max out the ram (2gb) will i be able to play games which have a minimum requirement of 128mb graphics power

 

[Crowze]

Not necessarily, there's far more to graphics processing than just memory, and the Intel integrated graphics chips are notoriously slow. Some games will work OK, most new games won't.