Wow, I forgot those existed. Reading some reviews, looks like the N4L doesn't have vcore adjustments, so overclocking is limited. Probably could set FSB to 200 (yonah should default to 166) and be fine.

For $20 you got a Good deal but this is only going to be Core Duo/Core 2 Duo era as the Pentium mobile stops with the 915 chipset. In a way you can get a Pentium M experience with the Core Duo as it is the same in single threaded loads anyway plus they are dirt cheap and they run cool. Overlocking on these sort of boards is going to be limited anyway and the few that did better are harder to find than unicorns.

Yonah is awesome. They are actually more overclockable than the Pentium M. I run my T2600 at 3.08GHz on an AOpen i975 based Socket M board. The performance just screams. 50K in 3DMark01, and that's only single-threaded. Great for a very fast, energy efficient XP gaming setup.

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Yonah is awesome. They are actually more overclockable than the Pentium M. I run my T2600 at 3.08GHz on an AOpen i975 based Socket M board. The performance just screams. 50K in 3DMark01, and that's only single-threaded. Great for a very fast, energy efficient XP gaming setup.

Awesome to find someone with some first hand experiance. I've got an Aopen ITX Barebones system with 880GME I just picked up as well for an actual Pentium M. Then I got this Asus motherboard. It was brand new in the box too. Looks like I'll have two nice Windows 98 potentially XP Dual Boots here.

Yonah CPU's look dirt cheap from China. Just ordered a T2600 from China for 3.33 USD. Any compelling reasons to upgrade to a Merom?

-x64 support
-Larger L2 cache (up to 4MB)
-Slightly higher IPC with older apps. However, Merom does have a faster SIMD unit, so newer apps that use lots of SSE may give it even more of an IPC boost over Yonah.

That said, Merom is so...mainstream. Yonah is definitely the more interesting processor to me. 😁

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-x64 support -Larger L2 cache (up to 4MB) -Slightly higher IPC with older apps. However, Merom does have a faster SIMD unit, so […]
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-x64 support
-Larger L2 cache (up to 4MB)
-Slightly higher IPC with older apps. However, Merom does have a faster SIMD unit, so newer apps that use lots of SSE may give it even more of an IPC boost over Yonah.

That said, Merom is so...mainstream. Yonah is definitely the more interesting processor to me. 😁

Yeah this is really a Windows 98/Me build so not sure if it needs to be any more overkill then it already is. That being said I still might dual boot XP but not 100% sure yet. Plus....Yonah IS more interesting. Like you said.