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    What processor would be more worth the money?

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by mechrock, Oct 14, 2008.

  1. mechrock

    mechrock Notebook Evangelist

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    The 100mHz and the extra cache on the t9300 will help you in CPU intensive applications... but not really that terribally much honestly.

    And i doubt it will make much more than 1-2 FPS, if any, on games (its not the bottleneck the GPU is)

    So if the 65 dollars is a sticking point for you go for the t8300 and you will be plenty happy. The t9300 is nice, but 4-5% better preformance isnt going to really be noticable when your talking about the speeds these things move at already.
     
    Kamin_Majere, Oct 14, 2008
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  3. alitunay

    alitunay Power Seller

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    If you want to get 30fps on high settings you will simply need a new computer but if you want to do it at a lower resolution and med-high settings and keep your computer more upto date I would go with x7800. You can grab one at ebay for $200 if you use cashback.
     
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