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    1,66 Duo Core 2 (667) VS 2,00 Duo Core 2 (800) ?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Molewarp, Oct 7, 2007.

  1. Molewarp

    Molewarp Newbie

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    Greetings.

    I am ordering a laptop for studies and gaming purposes. I plan to play games like WoW (on hi-settings) and Bioshock (on med-settings). Therefore I am getting a Zepto with 8600m GT and 2GB of RAM.

    My question is:

    How big is the difference between

    "2.00 GHz Intel® Core™2 DUO T7250 800MHz 2MB"
    or
    "1,66 GHz Intel® Core™2 DUO T5450 667MHZ 2MB"
    or
    "1,50 GHz Intel® Core™2 DUO T5250 667MHZ 2MB".

    And what impact would it have on gaming experience and battery life?
     
    Molewarp, Oct 7, 2007
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    Can Not Notebook Geek

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    From weakest to strongest T5250, T5450, T7250.

    I'd assume the strongest would consume more energy, but I don't know if thats only under load or/and when idle, too.

    OH BTW, WoW runs fine on a 1.6 GHz C2D T5450 with the 800MHz FSB. I haven't tried Bioshock.
     
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  3. Molewarp

    Molewarp Newbie

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    I think I posted this in the wrong section. Maybe this is for the "What Notebook Should I buy?"-section? If someone could move it I would be grateful.

    Anyways, thanks for the reply.
     
    Molewarp, Oct 7, 2007
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  4. fabarati

    fabarati Frorum Obfuscator

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    Most games run fine on a 1,6GHz C2D. The limiting factor is almost always the GPU. So you'll do fine with whatever you choose. And the T5450 is a 667FSB CPU, not 800MHz.
     
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  5. John Ratsey

    John Ratsey Moderately inquisitive Super Moderator

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    There would be no significant difference to the battery life in power saver mode where the CPU is locked down to the lowest speed but if the CPU is allowed to run at full speed on battery then the fastest CPU is likely to drain power faster (it's actually a lottery because of Intel's semi-random assignment of voltage range for individual CPUs).

    If you don't expect to use anything which will need the full CPU power for significant time (eg encoding) then the slowest CPU should be sufficient.

    John
     
    John Ratsey, Oct 7, 2007
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  6. Molewarp

    Molewarp Newbie

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    Would playing World of Warcraft (hi-settings) and playing Bioshock (med-settings) be in the full CPU power-category?

    This is the settings I am ordering:

    14,1" WXGA+ 1440x900 - 6324W
    120GB 7200rpm SATA Harddisk Samsung®
    Zepto Zpro Wireless Netwrok (ABGN) 300Mbit
    SAMSUNG DVD-RW DL
    DK keyboard layout, white
    6 Cell battery
    NVIDIA® Geforce 8600M GT
    2.00 GHz Intel® Core™2 DUO T7250 800MHz 2MB
    2048MB (1024x2) DDR2 667/PC5300 SODIMM, Zepto
    Microsoft® Windows® Vista Home Premium 32bit - DK

    Anything to add when I say that I want to play those games and still want to have the mobility?
     
    Molewarp, Oct 7, 2007
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  7. fabarati

    fabarati Frorum Obfuscator

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    Nope. More like Encoding HD video, or playing Supreme Commander (the only game i know of that is CPU bound).
     
    fabarati, Oct 7, 2007
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  8. wolfraider

    wolfraider Grand Viezir of Chaos

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    I would though reccomend you to buy th t7250 because it is indeed a huge leap
     
    wolfraider, Oct 7, 2007
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  9. Molewarp

    Molewarp Newbie

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    Thanks for the help everyone. Does it matter that the CPU is 800MHz while the RAM only is 667MHz?
     
    Molewarp, Oct 7, 2007
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  10. John Ratsey

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    It's the best we can have at the moment. It would be nice to have the RAM running at 800MHz as well. Maybe that will come with the next refresh of the chipset but, in reality, people will have to use benchmark results to measure the difference.

    John
     
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  11. wolfraider

    wolfraider Grand Viezir of Chaos

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    no it is worse when it is the opposite

    667 ram 553 FSB
    the ram will than run at slower speed but almost same latency which results in bad performance.

    having faster FSB is just a plus you will lose nothing
     
    wolfraider, Oct 7, 2007
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