Inspiron 1520 processor

Hey guys,

I just ordered my inspiron 1520 in Australia.

The lowest processor option was the Core 2 duo T5450 (1.66 Ghz), and because of my budget, I chose it.
I was just wondering if the 1.66 Ghz will be too slow.

I have a dell desktop which is a pentium 4, 2.3 Ghz. Will the core 2 duo 1.66 Ghz be faster or slower that the pentium 4.

Thanks.

 

Quite a bit faster.

 

what are your views on the T5450? is it ****?

 

is it s-h-i-t-?

 

It's okay, but I would've gotten a T7100 1.8 GHz at the lowest.

 

for me i would have got the T7300 minimum because of the 4MB cache and 2.0GHz speed, T7100 is still ok as they are about the same speed. The T5450 will be much faster than your current processor as it is core 2 duo but you would have been better getting at least the T7100. You dont say what you will be doing with the laptop but if its just basic use with internet browsing, word processing and emailing etc the T5450 will be fine, if you wanted gaming or high intensive tasks such as encoding or more multi tasking then you should at least get the T7100.

 

I'm just about to order mine tonight, here are my specs... Was getting an MBP tonight but changed my mind when I realized dell has gotten incredibly cheaper, so I had to choose this, Saved me 600 bucks and doubled the RAM!

http://hackeralert.org/personal/Yeah2.PNG (The image)

Couldn't fit all the specs, basically it just shows the 56k modem etc under, Which color did you choose qwerty?

I'm choosing Midnight Blue, although I love the red too

All in all, Totals at $2901 AUD.. Yeah I'm in Australia too ... Thats 700 bucks cheaper than macbook PRO and 2GB more RAM...

 

I got midnight blue by the way.

I will be using the computer for some games, but mostly watching movies and browsing the internet.

Will it be ok for that?

 

Yeah it would manage.

My second desktop = Core 2 1.8Ghz, 128MB 50 dollar graphic card, 512MB ram.

I don't think there hasn't been a game that I cant play yet, some games take a while to load but when I'm in, It plays fine.

As for the laptop, 1GB ram at least if you want to game, with that CPU and GPU, you should expect to play

 

Over clock it. Get yourself a nice cooling pad for $30-$50 and over clock the processor. When your on the road - clock it back to 1.5ghz. you can over clock it to 1.8 ghz easy.
What Intel does is it designers one architecture for the actual cpu, then it goes off and tries the cpu at different clocks and then they sell them as different processors.

 

Inspiron 1520, Intel Core 2 Duo T5450, 1.66GHz,
Midnight Blue
2GB, DDR2, 667MHz 2 Dimm
256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT
160GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive
Windows Vista Home Premium
15.4" WXGA 1440 x 900 + truelife

THose are the specs.
How do you overclock it?

Is there any chance I could call up dell and ask if they can upgrade the processor for me free of charge? or is that pointless?

 

Pointless... They wouldn't do that.....But its worth a try!, see if they can do it....Maybe trade the free upgrades for a CPU upgrade, they do that sometimes.

Overclocking is easy, You can do it via the BIOS.. and sometimes via applications in the OS which take effect when you restart your computer.

 

You can't O/C the cpu in any notebook. Dell locks down there bios.