Turion or Pentium?

[claudiobar]

Hi to everyone! I'm about to buy a laptop and I'd like to ask you for some help. What kind of processors, do you think, would offer me a better relation between cost/speed?

I'm planning to use this PC's horsepower mainly for compressing movies with the x264 codec.

The main option is to buy either a TURION64-X2TL52, but for almost the same money I can afford a T5200, or even a 5500.

Any recommendations?

Thanks from now
and apologize my english

Clau

[jeffy]

Mainconcept H264 performance
http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu_mobile.html?model1=703&model2=705&chart=267

Turion CPUs are here, unfortunately only T7xxx Core 2 Duo CPUs are here (4 MB cache instead of 2 MB, T5200=533, T5500=667 MHz FSB)
http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/02/27/dual_core_notebook_cpus_explored/page6.html#benchmarking_difficulties

[foxyshadis]

Much more of a hardware question, since x264 on most processors will tend to follow general integer performance. I've used both (I've also had a T7400 since a few months before release) and the T5x made a large difference over both Turions, given nearly identical other system specs. (What are friends for, if not giving you hardware to break? Do it with a smile and they come back for more!) Prices have probably changed since, but the Turion won't catch up until K8L.

[claudiobar]

Thanks for your answers :)
They've been very helpful.