LostCircuits takes a look at the DFI 855GME-MGF and Intel Pentium M 735

Over the past years, most of us have gotten so used to Intel's Pentium4 and a few selected Itanum2 that it has becomes kind of easy to disregard the rest of Intel's CPU repertoire, from X-scale to Banias and Dothan. Especially the Banias-core-based Pentium M, not to be mistaken for the Pentium 4M has earned itself the reputation of a superior performer at extremely low power. This lineage has continued to spawn the latest version, codename Dothan, featuring a 2MB Level2 cache that, in combination with the 32 MB each of instruction and data cache inherited from the Pentium3, makes for what could easily pass as Intel's finest. Only, it does not fit into the roadmaps heralding GHz along with superior heating performance.

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