Alienware m11x processers?

Freddie_21

Hiya

Thinkin of buying one of these alienware m11xs...they come in both a intel pentium dual processors or a core i5 processors??i haven't a clue what the difference is here..can anyone tell me what the diff is in performance?

Cheers

ED E

Freddie_21 wrote: »

Hiya

Thinkin of buying one of these alienware m11xs...they come in both a intel pentium dual processors or a core i5 processors??i haven't a clue what the difference is here..can anyone tell me what the diff is in performance?

Cheers

The Dual Core is just that, two cores, like two brains in laymans terms. The i5 is a new gen and has 8 cores(in practical terms). This can be faster but a lot of software doesnt support all 8 cores right now. Its common that a fast dual will benchmark higher than an i5 at the same price for certain tasks.

The question is what are you going to be using it for?

Freddie_21

Ok cheers for that!! Mostly Surfing the web, streaming films, itunes youtube and gaming! :-) See i have a Asus EEE pc 900 and its very limited? Cheers again

flyingsnail

Lethal_Bullet wrote: »

The Dual Core is just that, two cores, like two brains in laymans terms. The i5 is a new gen and has 8 cores(in practical terms). This can be faster but a lot of software doesnt support all 8 cores right now. Its common that a fast dual will benchmark higher than an i5 at the same price for certain tasks.

The question is what are you going to be using it for?

The only i5 that have 4 cores are the i5 750 and 750s and as far as I know they only have 4 cores with 4 threads so no 8 cores. The rest are dual core and should perform better than a Pentium dual core.

Teutorix

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