The reason that these benchmarks contradict many others is simple: they base their benchmarks in a desktop setting, while this article bases its benchmarks in a laptop setting. This may seem like an insignificant difference, but the truth is that the Dothan architecture is merely held back; it's not allowed to unleash its full potential while confined in a laptop. The general rule is that processors with short pipelines, like both Turion and Dothan, face an unusually large disadvantage when working with high latency RAM. The only method of utilizing Dothan with lower latency RAM is with the Asus desktop motherboard converter, effectively removing the memory bottleneck but restricting it to desktop use only.
