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I've been helping people upgrade their older and slower AMD single core x64 based laptops, with the dual core Turion options. I will typically only source TL-60, TL-62, TL-64, and TL-66 processors. As these chipsets are approaching nearly 10 years of age, I've noticed the Turion processors still manage very well with today's operating systems and business applications. I run Windows 10 with a SSD and a TL-66 on my personal computer, and it does just as well as my much more expensive business laptop when it comes to running applications and multi-tasking. If you have the skills and know-how to replace a CPU on an S1G1 AMD board, and you've found a Turion processor for around $10, I'd say it is well worth the upgrade. And at least squeezing a few more years of use out of that older machine.Read full review
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It was installed on a HP Pavilion DV6000 laptop and works like a champ. It is a Dual Core processor that runs at 2.1GHz, has 1MB of L2 cache and has over 5 different frequency steppings to save power. 800MHz, 1.6GHz, 1.8GHz, 2.0GHz and 2.1GHz. The gap between idle and minimal performance is quite wide, increasing the power consumption somewhat in lightly threaded applications. It has a 35W TDP and a typical usage scenario, with a 6 cell battery (About 48MWHR), it should last about 2 hours and a half. It gets quite hot, while it varies greatly by laptops, in the HP laptop idled at 52C and reached 73C when loaded. The system feels responsive even during heavy workloads, may be not as snappy as a similar Intel Pentium T4300 laptop and might be slightly slower on general purpose applications, but faster with media encoding and heavy multi threading., but never slowed down either feeling laggy like a Pentium T4300 specially during media encoding. In overall, is an old but nice chip that can give you lots of performance for very little, specially when a Turion TL 64 is much more expensive.Read full review
Upgraded to this dual-core Turion from a single-core Sempron in an older Dell I believe 1501 laptop. Number might be incorrect. Anyway, to make a long story short I inherited the laptop and some money after trading my Core i3 laptop to my sister. The Dell was giving her fits and I thought I could fix it, and honestly, even the Sempron would have been fine for what I use a laptop for. I ended up installing two gigs of ram, and an SSD hard drive in it. (I had gotten the SSD for something else, but it worked, and it was on sale. I mention this because I know the SSD was overkill for this machine) Anyway, the the new hard drive solved the original issues. While the Sempron would have worked, going from a dual-core i3 to a single-core Sempron was tough so I decided to see if I could upgrade the cpu at all. Turns out the motherboard supported some dual-core cpu's. The first Turion I got didn't work. I don't think the cpu was defective, I think it was to much wattage. So I did some more research and found the TL-62 Turion that people were having luck with. It was cheap, it was dual-core and it was much higher frequency than the Sempron. Pluses all around. The TL-62 worked with my Dell mobo. But not only did it work, it was much faster, obviously, but it also runs exceptionally cooler than the Sempron. And that was one thing I was worried about going from a single-core to a dual-core. Would the heat sink support the Turion? Well, it does and where the Dell would borderline over heat with the Sempron it runs extremely cool with the Turion. The cpu upgrade was easily the best upgrade for the system in practically every way possible. And honestly, as far as cpu speed is concerned and what I do with my laptop there isn't a huge difference from the Turion to the i3. Good processor, I highly recommend it for anyone thinking about upgrading from a single-core Sempron.Read full review
The Processor was like new, put it in a older hp, working great, love the faster speed from the processor that I order and put in my hp from a 1.8ghz dual core to a 2.1ghz with 4gb of ram, with windows 7 64bit, still working great.
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Sped up an old Dell Latitude 131L I was tinkering with. I was replacing an single core processor and the extra core made a difference.
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