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    M17x T9800 or Q9000?

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by roby200487, Dec 19, 2012.

  1. roby200487

    roby200487 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hy, I have an m17x t9800 and i have the posibility to change it with a q9000. Its a good move, or not?

    I know that the qx9300 is the best, but yet i dont have the money for that!

    THanks.
     
    roby200487, Dec 19, 2012
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    Daverish Notebook Consultant

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    For most games and tasks, the T9800 is going to generally be faster with exceptions for specific games/programs that use more than 2 cores. Even then the T9800 has almost a 1GHz base clock over the Q9000. I wouldn't do it because I don't feel it'd be worth the money.
     
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    roby200487 Notebook Enthusiast

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    For mee its no money this change! So u say that tha t9800 is better? If i could i put the qx 9300, i think that is mutch better than the t9800.
     
    roby200487, Dec 20, 2012
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    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    Obviously a QX9300 is going to be the "best" option, but it also costs the most amount of money. Q9200 is a good value.
     
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    roby200487 Notebook Enthusiast

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    So for gaming the q9000 is better than the t9800? For mee its free that q9000. So replace the t9800 with q9000 or not?
     
    roby200487, Dec 20, 2012
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    mikecacho Notebook Evangelist

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    If you are going to do it go for it, most newer games take advantage of the Q series, but honestly I would shoot for the Q9200 since it is only 100MHz less than the QX9300, and half the price (I own the same machine as you FYI, view my sig)
     
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    roby200487 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Now the q9000 its for free. I would like a qx9200 or qx9300 but that is for money 300 dolaras! In the future i will get an r3.
     
    roby200487, Dec 20, 2012
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    Can you disable EIST in the bios you can use throttlestop to enable IDA mode when using all cores, this is great for the Quad series of CPUs since they get a whole multiplier instead of the half of the dual cores so you go up to 2.26ghz, over a 10% jump :)
     
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    roby200487 Notebook Enthusiast

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    So i choose the qx9300 :D It was very cheap :D
     
    roby200487, Jan 5, 2013
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