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    T9300 Question.

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by Doktamaja, Oct 10, 2008.

  1. Doktamaja

    Doktamaja Notebook Enthusiast

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    hey everyone. I'm very close to clicking buy of the T9300 for my 6860fx.. but before I do I have a couple questions..

    How much performance in gaming will I see like as FPS wise?

    and will this T9300 help my gaming performance enough for me to upgrade my lcd to a 1920 resolution without lowering the frames terribly? I would love to have a super High resolution and really the only game i care about for PC is WoW lol I play my other stuff on my 1080P samsung with a 360..

    (keep in my mind.. I mainly play WoW yes world of warcraft so.. right now i'm playing on 1440 with everything on high 4xAA and it averages 60 fps but when it gets into big affects and people it dropes to the 40s.. but I figure thats becuase of the stock 1.8ghz processor..

    thankyou everyone.
     
    Doktamaja, Oct 10, 2008
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  2. yoseph90

    yoseph90 Notebook Consultant

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    what processor are you upgrading from?
     
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    I upgraded from a T7250 to a T9300 - I saw zero performance increases in anything.
     
    jb1007, Oct 10, 2008
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    you should see slightly better performance in multitasking if you upgrade to T9300, due to the 6MB L2 cache.
     
    yoseph90, Oct 10, 2008
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    It's big enough of a Mhz and L2 cache difference that you may see a difference. Not so much on WOW, though.
     
    WarlordOne, Oct 10, 2008
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    Wouldn't a game like WoW possibly be CPU bottlenecked? Maybe not with 4xAA...

    I would say that the most you might see is kind of a "smoothing" out of some of your games. I noticed that in Crysis. Definitely doesn't allow you to turn the settings up anymore, but does just kind of raise the minimum FPS by 1 or 2... speculation though..

    If you are actually going to use your CPU for something other than games, go for it. If your main purpose of the laptop is WoW and nothing else, you could save a whole $300 for something else.
     
    Citizen86, Oct 10, 2008
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  7. Doktamaja

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    I have the T5550 I believe its 1.83ghz dual core.. kinda slow and i can tell where it shows the slowness..

    I also play COD4 and Age of Conan..
     
    Doktamaja, Oct 10, 2008
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    WarlordOne, Oct 10, 2008
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