Q9000 vs T9800

I just bought the G51VX (I dnt think its the best buy edition, its got the white rog lcd back). Anyways the P7350 2.0GHZ doesnt really satisfy me because I play all the newest games :/ Im playing bc2 on medium @ around 35fps avg but i get a lot of 15 fps dips. So in terms of gaming now that games are starting to use more than two cores do you guys think its better for me to get the Q9000 over the T9800 in terms of gaming only? What cpu would get better performance in multi threaded games like bc2?

 

The best buy edition IS the one with the white back lid. You can't use quads because the mobo does not support it as far as I remember so your best bet is a high clocked Core 2 Duo.

 

For gaming, I'd get the t9800. My personal taste is the q9000 as I didn't really use the expensive t9900's clock speed when I had one.

Does the game perform better if you turn on Asus' Turbo mode? How about overclocking with setfsb? If there is no performance gain, the bottleneck would be somewhere else. There are many reasons on why you could see the performance dip and it is usually not cpu related.

 

Yea possibly driver issues... the 257 drivers arent doing well imo. ill switch bak to 197

 

Well, 2 friends of mine have the same G51vx as you, and I have the G51J. I consistently perform better in games like BC2 among others, even when using a bit higher resolution, so maybe the CPU indeed is not up to the task anymore.

Overclocking your current CPU to 2.2-2.3ghz might help though not all G51vx reach that high (some get much higher though).

You should change your CPU to a higher clocked one to eliminate the CPU being a problem, and let the GPU be the bottleneck.

 

Have you tried overclocking the p7350 yet? It makes a noticeable difference.