G50V From BestBuy with P7450

I have the G50V from BestBuy with P7450. I am sure this is out of warranty by now and want to upgrade the CPU.

I am looking for some CPU upgrade advice and suggestions?

Does anyone see a drastic CPU price cut in the coming weeks with the i7 notebooks coming out?

I mainly use this laptop for work related chores. Two harddrives in a 15.6 inch is great for me. I have vmware and boot 2k3 server from there with Oracle, Peoplesoft and such.
Will upgrading the CPU give me a noticable performance boost?

I do some gaming (Oblivion, COD4, Crysis, Left4Dead)

Choices
T9800 2.93G 6MB L2 - $600 provantage
T9600 2.8G 6MB L2 - $338 amazon
P9700 2.8G 6MB L2 - $370 valleyseek

To me the T9800 seems like a bad deal. 2.93 vs 2.8 for twice the money??? In realworld usage is it any faster?

On a sidenote, has anyone added internal bluetooth? If so, what do I need to buy?

 

for 1 it is a g50vt it has a nvidia 9800 series not a nvidia 9700 series like the g50v's
but thats no big.
the t9600 is the best balance and yes you will notice a difference coming from the p7450.
no real diff from the t9600 to the t9800

 

Where did you get the idea that he was talking about GPU's?

Absolute best would be the T9800 of course, but there is not enough power in it to justify the fact that it;'s almost twice as expensive as the T9600. Out of the P9700 and the T9600 I suspect the P9700 would be the better choice for battery life, as it consumes less power and produces less heat, but with that comes the fact that the P9700 may not be as powerful as the T9600. If you need a little more battery life, which I suspect you don't, owning the G50V, then go for the P9700, but I would generally recommend the T9600. You really aren't going to see much difference in real world benchmarking, maybe 5% difference between the T9800 and the T9600.

 

Thanks, wound up going with T9600. Best bang for the buck. Besides, this laptop is going to my daughter anyway. I am actually trying to decide a new laptop anyway (51j vs 8690 vs m15x)

 

NP8690 for that choice. Has a better GPU than both the others, and for about the same price too, with the Sager being only a little more expensive.

 

only a little more expensive? the G51j stock has 4GB of ram 500GB HDD and an OS. at the rumored price, 1450$, thats 400$ cheaper than am 8690 of the same config.

 

Remember, the NP8690 has a better GPU.

And the Alienware M15x is way out of it. Too overpriced.

 

I am actually more considering the 8760. Gotta have the two HD bays.

 

Totally... forget the alienware you're just throwing money out.

 

But the Alien head "glows"