Considering putting a T9300 into my Gateway P-6860FX

I just had one question.
Will I get better or worse battery life when upgrading to the T9300 from the T5550?

 

Better battery life

 

sorry to be a bother but is it a major jump or just another couple minutes?

 

Neither actually. The better architecture gets canceled out by the faster clock speed.

 

....sort of major..the Wolfdale (the 6mb cache penryn cpus eg:t9300) intel processors include better/less power consumption ...so yes more battery life....haven't tested thought just factual and logical.

 

well it looks like since it wont hurt anything im definitely upgrading. Thanks everybody

 

Make Sure You Are Careful!

 

Do u think its just a better idea to take it to a computer shop so if that if they screw up they have to pay for a new one. Will it void the warranty?

 

No, do it yourself and save some time and cash. It's really quite easy. I recommend using this set of tools: Stanley 66-052 Precision Screwdriver Set, 6-Piece. I bought a set from Walmart. The #1 screwdriver is your friend.

Make sure you keep the sticker partially covering the original processor in case you have to have warranty work done. That way, you can reinstall it and put it "back to stock."

 

you'll get better battery reguardless..all you have to do is clock it back down to 1.66 or 1.83 ghz and run power saver and you'll do fine.

just dont think your going to get 2 hours gaming on power set to high.

 

The processor accounts for a relitively small amount of battery useage when compared to the amount ouf power that the backlight on the screen and disk drives (hard drive and dvd). The lower voltage that the penryn processors use may account for a small amount of battery time, but I believe that it would be a small amount. Setting up your power configuration is your best bet with the processor that you have is your best bet. Don't set your monitor to highest intensity or disk use to 100%. Buying a T9300 is deffinetly a good choice if you want your games to run better, actually allot better (speaking from experience). Or processor intensive programs such as video encoders, 3d graphics ect. For the video encodering, I can tell you that the time it takes you to encode h.264, with the T9300 over the stock processor is substantial. I don't know if its the t9300's level 2 cache or what, but the T9300 is allmost 50% faster.
Seanno

 

As far as gaming goes .You can expect close to double FPS.

 

Were you thinking of classroom use? Curious as to why people buy a gaming DTR and then battery issues come up

I did not really see any difference but my mind set was not better battery life at the time, sorry. I do get about 2 hours if I turn things way down to surf, barely 90 minutes for a DVD so don't do that much, I use a PSP for movies on the road.

 

anything gaming is NOT going to be good on battery life. it is essentially a DESKTOP replacement. laptop= desktop replacement & notebook=way better battery life.

 

I upgraded to T9300, seems to run longer with new chip, The pins got bent when I installed mine, I bent them back, the thermal paste was messy
I'm a newbie at it
You'll definitely notice a large jump in performance, my windows index went up, plays Crysis at decent framerate now
I'm using the 174.6 gateway driver
I would have gotten an x chip but they were too expensive on e-bay, I ended up spending a little over 300

 

glad it worked out for you!

 

i plan on gaming with the battery out and the laptop plugged in, but its nice to know that when surfing the web and typing I'll be able to get extended battery life. Thanks.
I know this is off topic, but does anyone know the approximate maximum battery life when playing a dvd?