CPU upgrade advice -- Single v.s. Dual core?

Has anybody seen specs or perf on the forthcoming Turion X2s? I'm really not terribly interested in absolute speed (don't really game much), but I can't stand waiting for a CAD redraw or image resample with nothing to do in the meantime.

 

Yes well price is the downside, however they have come down quite a bit lately and used ones can be found for relatively cheap, they can also overclock quite well. Btw, keep in mind that with one of these you could have a near silent and cooler running PC with performance (at least in gaming) comparible to an Athlon 64. I wouldn't recommend it over the A64 if you do other intentive tasks though.

 

From the benches I've looked at, the Pentium M is roughly on par with an Athlon 64 of the same frequency for most benchmarks, but the A64 still pulls ahead in games.

 

The Pentium M is definitely holding its own against the Athlon and you have to respect that.

But the Pentium M is limited, i.e. no x86-64 or AMD64 emulation.

 

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=4843&page=1

 

That is pretty incredible. I'm seriously hoping that ATI can step up to the Conroe soon

Edit: Oops! Meant ATI.

 

http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/showpost.php?p=714089&postcount=50

 

http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=2716