Inspiron 9400/E1705: Performance Diff. Between Core Duos?

I already ordered mine with an Intel Core Duo T2300 Processor (1.66 GHz). However I've been wondering the performance difference compared to some of the faster Core Duos.

As far as I can tell the only difference is clock speed: all of them are built with a 65nm process, have 2MB L2 cache shared between the 2 cores, and 667Mhz Front Side Bus. The T2600 is clocked at 2.16 GHz, the T2500 at 2 GHz, the T2400 at 1.83 Ghz and the T2300 at 1.66 Ghz.

Would all you lucky guys with i9400's mind posting some benchmarks or Super Pi results?

Edit: Just in case, Super Pi is a short 71 KB download away at: http://files.extremeoverclocking.com/file.php?f=36

 

E1705 T2500 2.0 Ghz
2 GB 667 mhz Memory
Windows Media Center
WUXGA

Super Pi 2M 1:15 after clean reboot AC power
1:28 with TV on and 16 internet windows
32M - 29:03 77 processes AC

If I got the 2.16 Ghz processor I guess it would be 8% faster per chip?

 

I just found an interesting comparison between Pentium 4, Core Duo, Pentium M/D, AMD Athlon XP/64 and PowerPC processors at: http://www.systemshootouts.org/processors.html

The site concludes that:

- A Core Duo T2300 (1.67 GHz) = Pentium 4 4.0 Ghz = Athlon 64 4000+ (2.4 GHz).

- A Core Duo T2400 (1.83 GHz) = Pentium 4 4.4 Ghz.

- A Core Duo T2500 (2 GHz) = Pentium 4 4.8 Ghz.

Of course, those comparison are to be taken as a rough reference at best.

 

Man that is insanely fast! I think the 1.66 would get around 1:20-1:25. My AMD 3200+ 2ghz overclocked to 2.25 ghz gets 1:29.

 

Indeed, definitely better than I could have expected!

Anyone with a T2300?

 

An interesting experiment would be to run it twice, I think it is single threaded so I would assume you could run2 of them at the same time and get almost the same scores. This is where the real spead up should be seen.

 

That's the time it does Super Pi on 1 processor. If both were working maybe half the time.

I regret not getting the T2600 processor when after discounts it would have only cost me $240 more. But $240 can get me a lot of other stuff like a nice 250gb USB hard drive + other stuff.

I'm glad to find out my processor is faster than an XP 4000+, because actually I am an AMD fan, and all my regular computers are AMD. But my Abit Kr7A133 / AMD XP 2100+ / ATI X800 Pro 1.5 GB computer is a better gaming maching than my laptop - it got 4099 3d mark 05.

 

2M SuperPi on my system in my sig: 1m18s.

Note I have formatted but my system is NOT completely set up yet. I just ran Pi a sec ago and got that. I was installing world of warcraft during the pi run.

 

I am going to have to run SuperPi again on my machine. I think last time I ran it I was at 1:29. Specs in my sig...sounds about right though huh?

 

1m14s in 2m superpi but i didn't bother to restart.

 

1:12 in super pi, no restart.. core duo 2.0

 

So, to recap the findings so far:

User:.................... Time:............ Specs:

1) dduany13........... 1:12............ Core Duo 2.0 Ghz (no more info)
2) ledesordre.......... 1:14............ Core Duo 2.0 Ghz, 1 GB RAM
3) InspiredE1705..... 1:15............ Core Duo 2.0 Ghz, 2 GB 667 mhz RAM
4) ZeonStar........... 1:18............ Core Duo 1.86 Ghz, 2 GB 533 mhz RAM

Honorific Mention:

User:................ Time:............ Specs:

USAFdude02...... 1:29.............. Pentium M 760 2.0Ghz, 2 GB DDR2 PC-4200

 

Can you tell us what your system setup is? Memory, Win XP OS type, if you reformatted, if you overclocked, etc?

My system is loaded with the Dell junk + MS Antispyware + 3 License servers (for Unigraphics, Proengineer, Cadfix) + OS system mods from installing Visual Studio 2005 (.NET system mods, etc) + MS SQL Server 2005. I have about 76 processes running at startup, how many do you have?

 

I only have the 512mb ram that i ordered from dell, havent gotten anymore from newegg yet. XP MC, didnt reformat or overclock. I uninstalled all the junk from dell and have about 50 or so processes running.

Just ran it again and got 1:13. havent restarted or anything in like 8 hours. dont know why my time is so decent.

 

These Duo processor are really HOT! My system is faster than my work computer which is a Dual Xeon 3.06 GHZ 1.5 GB Ram - 35 process Super PI 2 M after startup - 2:10 ! Very surprising!

I'm very happy I got the Duo, when actually I'm an AMD 64 X2 fan for desktop computers.

 

2:10!! That is sad. The Duos almost cut 2:10 in 1/2! I think somthing might be wrong with your computer. 2:10 on a Dual Xeon 3.06! Thats really slow... Somthing like that should be getting around 1:30-1:40. Even my sisters PM 1.5 gets 2M in less then 2:10 . Perhaps you have some Spyware? Adaware?

 

Hehehe, it turns out that the Core Duos blow ANYTHING out of the water when it comes to Super Pi!

Interesting article at CoolTechZone.com

 

No Spyware or Adware. Just Proe License Server, MS SQL Server?, and computer monitoring stuff. I don't look at bad websites at work.

 

hi...do you know which would be the comparison for a core solo!!!?

 

I suspect the Core Solo (1.66) would get someting close to it's Core Duo counterpart as Super Pi is a single threaded application.

 

thanks xamdvsintelx...so this means that the core solo would be comparable to a 4.0ghz or 3.9ghz P4?

 

From what I understand; I think hypothetically and for gaming purposes yes. The only difference would be in a high bandwidth application/program, people that do photo editing and that sort, which requires a large amount of memory and bandwidth. That is my understanding at least. Maybe some other users that have more experience can offer some input.

 

Hiya lads. Iv just ordered a 9400 with the 2.16GHz Duo and 2x1024MB (677MHz) ram.
I noticed that you do not have a superpi result for the 2.16GHz processor. But im expecting to get it tomorrow and when I do a clean Window XP install ill post my SuperPi results.

 

Got 1 minute 10 seconds. Not so bad. Thought I might get 1:08 though

 

If anybody was still curious about the T2300, with a few backg=round apps going like Trillian and Firefox, I got 1:29