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    What is the difference between i5 460m, 480m and 560m?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by freshprinceuk, Mar 16, 2011.

  1. freshprinceuk

    freshprinceuk Notebook Enthusiast

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    yeah so am thinking about getting an xps 15... can someone tell me what the difference is with each of the processors?

    i think that the first batch were faulty or something but am not sure
     
    freshprinceuk, Mar 16, 2011
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    thisisdom Notebook Enthusiast

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    They're all basically the same. They just have slightly different clock speeds.

    460m = 2.53 GHz (boosts to 2.8)
    480m = 2.66 GHz (boosts to 2.9)
    560m = 2.66 GHz (boosts to 3.2)

    Maybe you're thinking of the sandy bridge problem, where the motherboards were faulty. All the sandy bridge names start with a 2 though. Those ones there are the 1st generation i series. They fixed the problem with sandy bridge now though.

    You might want to think about getting the newer xps 15, which has the sandy bridge processors + better graphics cards.
     
    thisisdom, Mar 16, 2011
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  3. Tsunade_Hime

    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    As it's been stated, all those i5 are just higher clocked dual cores. It really is a marketing ploy, more "GHz" just normally using your computer doesn't equate to a performance gain.

    Only the initial launch of Sandy Bridge was affected, all the stuff being sold now has been fixed with B3 stepping.
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Mar 16, 2011
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