T5450 processor still very fast?

Would you say that the T5450 1.66 Ghz processor is still an extremely fast processor for a laptop, even though you can go alot higher?

 

lol I had to reply to this

I'd say its more than average for tasks like internet, movies and light gaming, ie. The older games like CSS, WoW etc.

2GB is recommended with this CPU

Isn't that what you got anyway?

 

yep i got 2GB ram, thanx for the reply

awesome order change...BIG save

 

I don't like the T5450's crippled Cache.

 

The 5450 is a good processor, don't worry. Most often the processor isn't the bottle neck anyways. For gaming it's probably the video card that's going to hold you back, and for some other tasks it may be the hard drive.

Let's say you were able to get an awesome processor upgrade that could give you up to 50% gains!!! Chances are you wouldn't see most of it because of your other components. Depending on the location and severity of the bottleneck you may experience moderate gains, or perhaps only small gains. I'm not saying that upgrading a processor won 't do anything, but I think that the people who are saying, for example that a 200, 300,400 or even 500mhz processor upgrade is going to have massive speed gains are being drawn in a little too much by marketing...

I think this is especially true on notebooks where you see lower end video cards and more 5400rpm hard drives. You also see less RAM in a lot of cases.

 

For what it's worth, it should perform basically the same as the T5500... the 1.66 GHz Core 2 Duo offered on Napa (pre-Santa Rosa) models. They're both 1.66 GHz/667 Mhz FSB/2 MB L2 cache. It shouldn't be bad at all. The only reason Intel offers the T5450 in addition to the T5500 is that the T5450 is compatible with the newer Santa Rosa platform/chipset, while the T5500 isn't.

 

If I were to use it only for word processing, surfing, movies and power pt shows, would the T5450 be sufficient to last me for the next couple of years?

 

Yes, definitely.

 

Anyone know how T5450 fares in PCMark 2005?

 

A Celeron would suffice for that

 

Okay...even my Pentium 3 at 500 Mhz with 256mb of ram is enough for word processing, internet surfing, movies, and powerpoint...and it's running windows XP and Office XP. There is no modern system that would have a hard time with those tasks...ESPECIALLY ANY core 2 duo

 

Well, I voted no on the poll since your opening post said, "still an extremely fast processor" - relative to the T7600 at 2.33 GHz, it's not extremely fast.

But is it good? Yes, any new ones are. It depends on what you plan on doing, of course, but it's at least "good" for pretty much anything.

 

Should be fine, you can upgrade later. Depends on where your expectations are.