Real world gaming increase w/T8300 in p-6861

Hi, I was wondering if anyone who has upgraded the cpu from the stock 1.66ghz in the P-6861-FX to something like the T8300 has experienced noticable gaming frames per second increases? I plan on using this laptop to game on as long as I can. I can't help but feel that the 8800M GTS is being bottlenecked by the stock CPU. Can someone who has made this upgrade let me know if they've seen a FPS increase? Thanks

 

its known that the weakest part of the laptop is the CPU, not sure how upgrading will improve the FPS but it would make using the computer faster, like using programs and the like.

 

I haven't done that but you will get big increase in gaming cause stock processor is not good at all.
NO doubt that GPU is bottlenecked by CPU.

 

that stock t5450 isn't too bad.
the bottleneck will depend on what settings you use. If you try playing crysis on 1900*1200, very high settings, the bottleneck will still be the graphics card.

 

It really depends on the game. If you're thinking FPSes, in general, it's the GPU, if it's RTSes or simulations, it's more likely to be CPU.

The stock processor is perfectly fine.

 

So, you say that there wont be any FPS increase in Cryisis if someone changes his T5450 to a T8300?

 

No, there is an increase in general smoothness of play on Crysis. It was pretty substainial to me. Now the trick is figuring out how the drivers for the GPU effect game play....one of my problems.

The average increase is 3-5 FPS on Crysis

 

it won't be as much of a difference as you expected, but you can definitely notice it.

 

well crysis is a known pc killer.
as to other games i saw big improvement in responsiveness and max palyable resolutions, CoH is a whole different world with my new cpu, i have no experience with the t8300 though.

 

Learn to read.

In simple English, this would mean that a CPU upgrade would likely have greater impact on CPU intensive games such as RTSes or simulations.


Note that this is a T9300 vs T5450 thread.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=218971

Look at the improvements between stock processors and upgrades in Crysis and WIC.

 

With out a doubt a cpu upgrade will yield some improvement, My son plays EverQuest2 on his P-6831fx with zero lag or problems, the reason I say this is that game is one of if not the most CPU intensive games out. That being said, this laptop will run great stock, if you have the cash, upgrade for a little smoother game play. I have not bench marked my lappys yet but this is based of of real world intense gaming, btw my stock cpu in my P-172x fx runs Crysis great.

 

I upgraded to T9300 and definitely noticed that the game is now "playable" in high mode/ at very high, it will still studder at very high settings
With the stock CPU, everything ran in slow motion at high/very high settings, FPS was terrible
I tested Quake 4, COD, Oblivion, etc at max settings and had no problems and high FPS
Crysis is definitely a game which will tax your CPU and GPU

 

Crysis is hard on even my desktop.

 

flynnaz, what is your FPS when playing crysis on your desktop?

 

I will find out tonight, what is the command to show that ingame?

 

r_display info 1 or r_displayinfo 1

 

..or just run the internal benchmark. It only takes 5 minutes and you get better baseline on what you really gain, or loose.

 

I am using FRAPS (someone here recommended it)
I am just curious to see if a dual GPU system makes a difference in that game ( I don't believe it will make a huge difference)
I hope the next game from them will make better use of resources (better engine)

 

Only issue about FRAPS is it tends to take resources from your system.

 

How do we judge using FRAPS? Fraps has it's uses in games that don't have internal benchmarks. Using the internal benchmark levels the playing field using same closed course..and why run another process

 

ok, then, I will try it again...didn't know it had an in game FPS benchmark