![]() ![]() But not only did it work, it was much faster, obviously, but it also runs exceptionally cooler than the Sempron. It was cheap, it was dual-core and it was much higher frequency than the Sempron. So I did some more research and found the TL-62 Turion that people were having luck with. I don't think the cpu was defective, I think it was to much wattage. Turns out the motherboard supported some dual-core cpu's. While the Sempron would have worked, going from a dual-core i3 to a single-core Sempron was tough so I decided to see if I could upgrade the cpu at all. I mention this because I know the SSD was overkill for this machine) Anyway, the the new hard drive solved the original issues. (I had gotten the SSD for something else, but it worked, and it was on sale. I ended up installing two gigs of ram, and an SSD hard drive in it. The Dell was giving her fits and I thought I could fix it, and honestly, even the Sempron would have been fine for what I use a laptop for. Anyway, to make a long story short I inherited the laptop and some money after trading my Core i3 laptop to my sister. Upgraded to this dual-core Turion from a single-core Sempron in an older Dell I believe 1501 laptop. In overall, is an old but nice chip that can give you lots of performance for very little, specially when a Turion TL 64 is much more expensive. The system feels responsive even during heavy workloads, may be not as snappy as a similar Intel Pentium T4300 laptop and might be slightly slower on general purpose applications, but faster with media encoding and heavy multi threading., but never slowed down either feeling laggy like a Pentium T4300 specially during media encoding. It gets quite hot, while it varies greatly by laptops, in the HP laptop idled at 52C and reached 73C when loaded. ![]() It has a 35W TDP and a typical usage scenario, with a 6 cell battery (About 48MWHR), it should last about 2 hours and a half. The gap between idle and minimal performance is quite wide, increasing the power consumption somewhat in lightly threaded applications. It is a Dual Core processor that runs at 2.1GHz, has 1MB of L2 cache and has over 5 different frequency steppings to save power. It was installed on a HP Pavilion DV6000 laptop and works like a champ. In addition to high-end multimedia, premium gaming and secure commercial notebooks, AMD Turion 64 X2 mobile technology is an excellent choice for a mobile workstation-class platforms which allow customers to get high performance from their 32- and 64-bit workstation applications. AMD has worked closely with Microsoft to identify and develop key hardware components in support of Microsoft Windows Vista, the next generation Windows operating system. The reference designs help ensure AMD customers get to market more quickly, and also help reduce platform development costs.AMD Turion 64 X2 mobile technology is the only mobile processor today that is optimized for the 64-bit versions of the upcoming Microsoft Windows Vista operating system. These reference designs are an example of best practices in notebook PC development based on AMD and collaborative technologies.
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