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    Processor speed?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by bobblaine, Jul 19, 2007.

  1. bobblaine

    bobblaine Notebook Consultant

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    On the dell 1520 is it worth it to pay $100 more from a Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T7300 (2.0GHz/800Mhz FSB/4MB cache) to a Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T7500 (2.2GHz/800Mhz FSB/4MB cache) and waht are the benefits of a faster hard drive?
     
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    no its not worth it to go to 2.2

    faster hard drive = faster loading/access
    =less battery/more heat
     
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    The jump from 2.0 to 2.2 isn't really that spectacular. The jump from 2 mb cache to 4 mb cache is a little more significant. Unless you are running processor intensive applications and you NEED the speed, the 2.0 should do you just fine. I'd spend the money on a faster hard drive or more ram. The faster hard drive uses a tiny fraction more power, but it also results in faster load times for virtually all programs.
     
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    Hwo much faster is the 2.0ghz vs the 2.2ghz, and how many ghz for speed is a 2.0ghz core 2 duo equvilent if it was a petium 4 processor?
     
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    Is this good for gaming
    Dell 1520
    2.0ghz core 2 duo 4mb cache
    2gb Ram
    8600Gt
    160 7200rpm hard drive
     
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    The 2.2 is roughly 10% more powerful than the 2.0. You don't really notice it all that much though, unless you are encoding video or something like that.

    Oh gosh, a Core 2 Duo clocked at the lowest speed available, I think it is 1.6GHz, is more powerful than the fastest Pentium 4 (I think it was 3.8GHz). You see, not only do Core 2 Duo's have 2 processor cores in them compared to the Pentium 4 (which has 1), they are also more efficient in general. In other words, a core 2 duo running only 1 core is more powerful than a Pentium 4 of the same GHz.

    That's a pretty solid machine for gaming. It'll run all the recent games very well, and future games probably at medium settings.
     
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