Intel has some wicked performance in their Pentium-M chips...but not every one wants to get a motherboard for the CPU. Asus has an adapter for the retired Socket 478 platform, and PC Perspective takes a look at what the adapter can mean for the enthusiast. At stock speeds, the Pentium M 755 did very well in our benchmarks, outrunning some of the lower-end Athlon 64s and Pentium 4s in the majority of the tests. The real power behind the Pentium M comes when overclocked though; and the Asus CT-479 enabled us to go 200 MHz faster than the the 855GME platforms had for a total speed of 2.6 GHz. At that level we saw the P-M out performing the Athlon 64 FX-55 processor in gaming and the Pentium 4 in some media tests. The power of this little mobile processor continues to impress me, and I am eagerly awaiting for Intel to adopt this basic architecture and expand on it for their entire line. The catch is the price...and the Pentium-M 775 runs around $450...not exactly cheap, but, it's still something to drool over. Read the review here.
