1.83 or 2.0 CPU in a W7J?

I plan to order a W7J....

it comes standard with a 1.83 CPU duo core.

Does anyone know if upgrading to a 2.0 instead will:

1). Create much more heat? i mean... "alot" more heat?

2). draw alot more power? (i dont mean an extra 5 minutes over the course of a full battery drain. I am talkin like... an easy 30 minutes or so knocked off?)

and..

3). Show any significant improvement in performance? (i will use this computer mainly for websurfing, note taking, and light gaming... very little in the way of graphics or video editing....)



-Thanks for any responses!!

(my assumed answers...)
1). i think it probably wont be much more heat, if any.

2). i get a feelin that a significant amount of battery might change, like 20 or 30 minutes...

3). i probably wont feel the difference at all xD... but i could be wrong.

 

I think all it would do is cost you more. I agree with your assumptions except with the battery, I don't think it will drain a lot more.

 

The performance increase will be unnoticeable performing day to day tasks, battery life will not be reduced to any noticeable degree, so it's not really worth the upgrade unless you're running scientific programs for solid number crunching.

I say save your money and upgrade to a Merom processor next year.

 

Pretty much, unless you do some heavy CPU usage, you will barely notice it.

 

Although not the T2400, I guess you could use this as reference? It's another thread comparing the T2300 to T2500

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=49455

 

performance difference is little to none, although I wouldn't go any more high end in such a tight system anyway........ Not only that, but changing it is going to void Asus' global warranty...... even though you're still paying for it.

 

thanks, i guess i'll stick with the 1.83 then, if the boost is only 9% from a 1.66 to a 2.0.... then a 1.83 to a 2.0 must be near zilch, lol.

thanks for the thread linking

 

... and that's 9% in benchmarks..... in the real world, 99% of people will never be able to tell the difference between a 1.6 and a 2.1... not just now, but 2-3 years down the road...

 

Not worth the losing the warranty.

 

Also, you can wait until next year when your warranty expires and (hopefully) put in a Merom. Based on that, the 2.0GHz seems even less essential.

 

Not to mention it's going to throttle down the CPU clock speeds to facilitate what you're doing. The extra bit of GHZ does nothing but make it sound cooler when you tell people who don't know anything about computers what's inside it.

 

Back in the day when cpu's were only 200mhz, yeah an extra 200 would be very noticable, but with the current speed of processors you'll be hard pressed to notice the difference from an extra 200mhz.

To put it a different way, you would see speed increase in apps, but I'm thinking it would be a difference of seconds, not minutes.

 

I seriously doubt he'd even notice the difference. If anything it would be his mind "telling" him it's faster than actually seeing a difference. That is unless he's using statistical analysis programs or some other number cruncher.

 

Keep in mind, a 1.83 duo core is about the same as a 2.0 Pentium M. (If i read the post correctly)