c2d 1.83 or 2.0

ok so obviously a 2.0 proccessor is gona be better for gaming, but how much better? on the dv6000t's its $100 more for the 2.0 than the 1.83 so for gaming is that price really worth it?

 

It isn't going to help with gaming at all. It would help for other things, but not gaming. It is the graphics card that really matters.

 

For the dv6000t, the difference between T5600 and T7200 really depends on how much you have to spend.

The major difference besides the extra clock speed on the T7200 is the extra L2 cache. L2 cache is sort of a memory bank in the processor, so if it needs to go back to retrieve data, it looks in the L2 cache first, then if it can't find the data there, it goes to search the RAM. The larger the L2 cache, the less your RAM is utilized, and thus the more efficient and faster your computer processor will run.

The T5600 has 2 MB of L2 cache, whereas the T7200 has 4 MB of L2 cache. In benchmarks, the extra L2 cache is shown to increase performance by maybe 10% to 15%.

In the older generation of Core 2 Duos, the T7200 2.0 Ghz processor was considered the best bang for the buck. Thus, if you had the money, you could buy the T7200 and you would get the best performance to price ratio out of any of the other processors in the Core 2 Duo Merom series (T5300, T5500, T5600, T7200, T7400, T7600).

If you are on a budget, or don't feel like spending the extra $100, then the T5600 is perfectly fine. Just keep in mind it has half the L2 cache as the T7200.

Another thing to consider is the fact that the processor is rarely the bottleneck in gaming. Especially in notebooks, the video card is usually where the data gets bottlenecked.

 

thanks for the quick responses, now i just gotta worry about the price for the dx10 card. :}

 

Are you talking about the dv6000t or dv6500t?

The dv6000t doesn't support DX10 - it supports DX9.0c with the Geforce Go 7400 card.

The dv6500t is the new Santa Rosa/DX10 version of the dv6000t that supports DX10. Right now it only has the GMA X3100, but HP will integrated an 8400M card into the notebook in June. Is this the computer you're talking about?

In any case, the analogy still applies. The T7100 1.83 Ghz processor only has 2 MB of L2 cache, whereas the T7300 2.00 Ghz processor has 4 MB.

 

I don't intend to be rude, just to make sure this information is accurate. The T7100 is 1.80GHz, not 1.83GHz. Probably a typo and definitely a minor detail. Though, the T5600 is 1.83GHz!

 

That's true, but noobhelp confused me by asking about DX10 cards on the dv6000t, so I just wanted to check.