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    P8600 vs T9300

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by GaMeRxD, Apr 8, 2008.

  1. GaMeRxD

    GaMeRxD Notebook Evangelist

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    Will the T9300 2.5ghz on a santa rosa platform refreshed be faster or slower than a p8600 2.4ghz on a montevina platform?
     
    GaMeRxD, Apr 8, 2008
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  2. Jayayess1190

    Jayayess1190 Waiting on Intel Cannonlake

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    It will be faster since it has more cache and .1GHz. Better to compare the T9300 with the P9500.
     
    Jayayess1190, Apr 8, 2008
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    carthikv12 Notebook Evangelist

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    then p9500 should win... same cache, .o3 GHZ faster and a faster FSB and LESSER POWER!!!!
     
    carthikv12, Apr 9, 2008
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    I doubt whether T9300 wud be faster than p8600. The 1066Mhz fsb does make a BIG difference. THis translates to faster Bus data transfer speeds. The T9300 might be marginally faster for some specific CPU intensive tasks, but for normal use, I believe they'd perform similarly at the least...
     
    CodeRed, Jul 13, 2008
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  5. Phil

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    Yeah me too. You explained it well.

    By the way if you're looking for performance in games as your name may imply, those CPUs will perform equal. The GPU will be the bottleneck.
     
    Phil, Jul 13, 2008
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    CodeRed Notebook Guru

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    Though performance wise the T9300 'may' have a slight edge, but the p8600 boasts of being power efficient and supports DDR3 upto 1066MHZ. The RAM clock rates will definitely be faster and not so expensive either.
     
    CodeRed, Jul 13, 2008
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    Andy Notebook Prophet

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    It is the chipset that supports DDR3 ram (Montevina)....
     
    Andy, Jul 13, 2008
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    I am checking for the new HP, there is choice of proc between : P8600 and T9400 (+ 100usd) and T9600 (+350 USD) what is the best choice if i do the CPU demanding task, like video encoding, editing etc... will the T proc will be better or P ? is it worthing adding more money to get it ?

    Thanks for your help. WIll be nice if there was a benchmark review
     
    netuser, Jul 20, 2008
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  9. Andy

    Andy Notebook Prophet

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    Go for the T9400 - It has 3MB more cache than the P8600 and is only 277MHz slower per core than the T9600 (not worth the extra $250)
    You won't notice much of a difference in temps. and battery life when running CPU-intensive tasks, since CPUs are normally pushed to their limits under heavy load..!!
    InsideHW
    Cinebench R9.5
     
    Andy, Jul 20, 2008
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