cpu t9600 vs P9700 building notebook

If both CPU are the same except the P9700 uses 10watts less, wouldn't it ALWAYS be a better choice in a notebook? I mean, same 2.8Ghz so it's not like pumping 10 extra watts is going to give a performace edge, but 10 less watts can be a big difference on time on battery, right?

 

Man, not this thread again. Intel lists watts as reference to TDP, not electrical wattage. And for the record, the P9700 is 28W TDP, not 25W. In short, the P9700 is just a factory undervolted version of the T9600. If you are willing to shell out the money to get the more efficient CPU, then by all means go ahead. And being that this is the Asus forum where all the G51's and G71's make my Clevo hotter by just viewing all the complaints about overheating, I would suggest going for the P9700. Your Asus will thank you for keeping the temps low. As for battery life, the difference is most noticable at load. You can expect around 15 minutes more battery life when running intensive applications.

 

Lol. I googled the cpu t9600 vs P9700 before posting and what came up was some guy saying that the 35watt one was going to give you more performance. That's why I asked it here.

 

Who? Do you have the link?

 

Sure:
http://www.techsupportforum.com/hardware-support/laptop-support/397260-p9700-vs-t9600.html

As for heat, I went back 9 pages in this forum and while I found ALOT of talk about heat, at least I didn't see any issues about laptop melting. Now if I can just get my finger to hit the "buy" button after configuring the laptop...

I wonder how long it takes the shop to configure before shipping...

 

I'm raging right now at that link you gave me, starstreak. I am utterly speechless that it was a forum mod that gave that statement too. If I had the energy right now, I'd sign myself up and bombard that forum just like I did here on NBR.

 

Lol. And here I thought you asked me that to scold me that I really didn't use a search first. (Thinking I was BSing)
But yeah, I didn't think more wattage = more power. At least in the terms of wattage I was talking about on the CPU.

 

Haha, I never intended to scold you. I just wanted to know who was the retard that posted that information.

You are still correct. Higher TDP also means more power consumed by the CPU as heat is a byproduct. Though in this case, we are more concerned about the thermal output rather than power consumption.