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Intel Atom Benchmarks

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Is there a list of benchmarks for the Intel Atom's from a reliable website? When I search for specific processors, I usually get reviews of entire systems compared against other mobile/micro PC systems.

I've seen http://www.cpubenchmark.net/, but I'm not sure how reliable those results are since they are user submitted and they seem to accept benchmarks of overclocked CPUs the same as if they were stock!
 
The netbooks we have with atom processors at work are too slow to bother with but I guess if you really need something that small they are okay.
 
Thanks everyone.

The Anandtech bench's are exactly what I was looking for.
 
most people seem to buy them just because of the price alone even though they really want a full size laptop.
 
Quite the opposite in my case- I would not want a full-size laptop. I love the size factor and battery life of the netbook (1000HA in my case). The performance is IMHO more an issue with the on-board graphics than the processor itself. I don't game on it and wouldn't expect to. On the other hand, with compiz, etc it runs just fine. The only downside is HD videos which it cannot keep up with if you run in a higher resolution on an external monitor. For a first gen system I think it's fine and if better GPU performance meant crappy battery life I wouldn't want it.
 
If you wanted battery life, the 945 chipset they used on the first generation is just TERRIBLE. By actual TDP ratings the chipset uses over two times as much power as the Atom itself (for netbooks, the difference is even higher for the nettops). You can get much better GPU performance with nVidia's ION platform, and the kicker is, ION uses less power than the equivalent 945-based system!
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3692&p=11
(Zotac Ion vs Intel D945GCLF2)

I'm just hating on how terrible a chipset Intel threw into the first generation, I mean they basically used leftover crap from the P4 era. Even when you read the copyright years on the chips themselves, Atom being from '07 and 945 being from '04...? yeah.. you can totally say the two were designed for each other.
 
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