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    dell studio xps 13 cpu

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by jabbok, May 18, 2009.

  1. jabbok

    jabbok Notebook Deity

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    Is there going to be a big difference in buying the P9500 2.53ghz or the P8600 2.4ghz, I need to have a smaller notebook for travelling, I do some gaming wow, spore, emailing, surfing the net etc., would like to have good battery life. In Canada the price difference is about $150.00.
     
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  2. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    P9500 over P8600... you're getting an additional 133MHz and 3MB of L2 cache... at $50 I'd say yes, at $100 I'd say maybe, but at $150 I'd say no. Don't think it's worthwhile here since I don't think you'll be doing anything CPU limited.
     
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    The P8600 is fine ;) You won't be getting any better gaming performance with the P9500 because of the GPU. So unless you're doing something that uses a'lot of the CPU but not the GPU... Just stay with the P8600 ;)
     
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    yeah i would second that, i fitted mine with the 2.6 GHZ CPU, and i never really use it at full capacity, but if money is no problem, then its always nice to have the extra clocks :D
     
    Koer, May 18, 2009
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  5. jabbok

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    thanks that is what I was thinking, if it was $50.00 more I would have but I didn't know if I could justify it for $150.00
     
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    Sephoroth Notebook Evangelist

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    Well the bigger advantage of the P9500 is the L2 cache as the clock speed difference isn't really noticeable. The promotion I got mine on didn't let me stick with the P8600 and forced me to upgrade to the P8700 but who am I to complain considering the price I got it at :D.
     
    Sephoroth, May 18, 2009
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