How much Performance Increase Can I expect from this upgrade

here is the tech spec for my laptop right now


To a computer that has same ram(1gb) and gpu(x1400 256 hypermemory) and operating system (xp) but the CPU is now
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T5470 (1.6GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 800MHz FSB)

 

Like having 2 strapped together + some!

 

damn baddog you're like on 24x7 ;O

but would I actually notice this in like say 3D intensive games like BF2 or CS:S?

 

OK you are only asking CPU? The answer is none! GPU handles 3D not CPU what was your old GPU?

 

Not too much.. The bottleneck would still be the graphics card, as earlier. Perhaps in parts where there are more units on the maps, there might be a small increase. CSS runs on anything, so no increase there..

 

But doesn't FSB do anything? The one i'm getting is 800 the one I have now is 533.

New laptop will have 8600 GT as well .

 

The 8600m GT is going to be about 400% better/faster than the X1400. The FSB and the CPU don't matter so much in 3D rendering, they just don't, the GPU carries the load!

 

But since I am going from a 1.86Ghz to a 1.60Ghz although the 1.60 is Intel Core 2 Duo, will I see any decrease? theoretically speaking that is considering everything else being the same.

 

No core 2's (solo or duo) do more per clock than core (solo or duo) do. So you have 2 running, even if not multitasking with 2, 1 can run a lot of that stuff Windows runs in the background and the other can run your app, you are going to see improvement, come on join the dual core club, it's fun!

 

What computer exactly has a T5470 and a x1700?

 

In gaming performance you will stay about the same. But in overall system performance and general responsiveness, yes, you will.