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    4gb vs. 7700

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by maneatingbackpack, Dec 2, 2007.

  1. maneatingbackpack

    maneatingbackpack Newbie

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    I'm going to buy a laptop, and I to fit my budget I either have to go with:

    2gb of RAM with an Intel® Core 2 Duo Mobile T7700 Dual-Core Processor (2x 2.4GHz/4MB Cache/800FSB)

    or

    4gb of RAM with an Intel® Core 2 Duo Mobile T7500 Dual-Core Processor (2x 2.2GHz/4MB Cache/800FSB)


    I'll be gaming and using Photoshop CS3 a lot, if that influences the response at all.
     
    maneatingbackpack, Dec 2, 2007
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  2. SmoothTofu

    SmoothTofu Inspiron 1420 Owner

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    If it's the same price, I would go for an extra 2GB of ram and lose the measly 200 MHz on the processor.
     
    SmoothTofu, Dec 2, 2007
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  3. Thomas

    Thomas McLovin

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    I aggree with the above.
    Both have 4MB cache too so 200MHz is barely anything.
    I'd go for more RAM.
     
    Thomas, Dec 2, 2007
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  4. Niqui

    Niqui Notebook Evangelist

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    hi,
    i would take the ram over the cpu upgrade, especially if your running vista and cs3...also keep in mind though that if your running a 32bit os you wont have access to all 4gb of ram...
    thanks
     
    Niqui, Dec 2, 2007
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  5. wolfraider

    wolfraider Grand Viezir of Chaos

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    ram is darn cheap these days 70$ for 1X2gb stick...
     
    wolfraider, Dec 2, 2007
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  6. adinu

    adinu I pwn teh n00bs.

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    I would actually take the 7500 & 2gb of ram and save a boatload of cash that I would use for other stuff life accessories, speakers, games.

    Those will be more than enough for most users, even with Vista. On my current 2gb Vista machine idling uses 26% of physical ram, so you have just about 1.5gbs of memory for other programs.
     
    adinu, Dec 2, 2007
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  7. count_schemula

    count_schemula Notebook Deity

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    ram is cheap, the processor is forever...

    although, yeah, both having 4MB cache and only being 200MHz apart is not that much of a difference...
     
    count_schemula, Dec 2, 2007
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