Intel P7350 vs. T8300

Hi all,

i was hoping someone could have some usefull info on this upgrade. I was offerd a T8300 CPU at very low pricing, something about 70€. Am not certain as if how much the improvement would be?
Any benchmarks would be greatly appriciated, also here is my windows experience index on win 7 x64.
So if anyone has the same OS on T8300 i would like to see their WEI. (although i know it is´n that important )
all thoughts are greatly appriciated.
Thx in advance

 

The T8300 is only a marginally faster processor. wPrime 32 scores are about 38 for the P7350 and 36 for the T8300. The T8300 will also consume a bit more power than the P7350. I'd say this upgrade probably isn't worthwhile.

Also, WEI isn't a terribly good indicator of anything performance. Try to stay away from WEI.

 

I know about the WEI, 3dmark would be better there... i use 3dmark06.
I guess it isn´t worth the money then.

 

Why would you want to downgrade? A T8300 is an old cpu and not to mention its runs hotter than the P7350... and will cause your battery life to drop so if ur so desperate for more power get a P9500/9600/9700...

 

Heh, I assume that's why I get a 5.8 in gaming graphics with an 8800m GTS while OP gets a 6.1 with a 9600m GS...

On topic, yes, a T8300 is not a worthwhile upgrade over a P7350. It's faster but hotter.

 

However you guys failed to take into account of VT capabilities.
That is if OP wants VT.

 

Hello van capri.
Strange you want to downgrade the CPU.
The T8300 are older technology, part of the Santa Rosa Platform, and the P7350 is part of the Montevina Platform.
There is no point on doing that, since you lose the bigger FSB. If you want to upgrade a faster HDD or SSD could do it, extra RAM if you dont have enough, and it the worst case, where the CPU needs an upgrade, go for a 1GHz FSB one, based on Montevina.

 

It would not be a downgrade, the T8300 is older but a somewhat faster processor. Try checking notebookcheck.com under processor benchmarks... but it still isn´t worth the effort. I was only considering it because it was a realy cheap offer...
I´ll stick to my P7350 for now, thank you for the advices

 

If u want you could get a P9500 or T9600... nice processors and certainly worth it ... T8300 is just too old for the montervia platform..

 

I am not sure if the old Santa Rosa and the newer Montevina are even compatible in the same chipset...
Anyways, Montevina is much better than Santa Rosa, the bigger FSB helps A LOT!

 

@serg -They are compatible... same chipset (PM45), i guess ill stick with my old proc. as you pointed out, it has a bigger FSB but still is slower (((

@sean473 - there is no point in telling me what processor is the best for my laptop as I am on a very low budget, believe me i would be the happiest person if i could only consider a processor like T9600

 

Oh thanks. I wasnt sure.
But still, stick to you P7350 and save for a SSD, supposedly the performance boost of a SSD is far superior than a higher clocked CPU.

 

the t8300 is still faster, it's clocked at 2.4ghz. it's just not faster enough to warrant an upgrade.
temperature isn't an issue, you can undervolt both of them to the same level.

 

Actually even though they are both Penryns, they are not the same stepping. T8300's use an older stepping, M0, that requires more voltage than the current R0 stepping. Stock vs stock the stepping means nothing, but if you undervolt or overclock it does mean something. On the desktop R0 and E0 (6Mb cache version) overclock quite a bit better and with lower voltages than their predecessors. The M0 is first penryn stepping and the R0 is the third.