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    Processor Question...

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Sir Travis D, Mar 5, 2008.

  1. Sir Travis D

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    How much better is the " Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T5500 1.66GHz 2MB Cache 667MHz FSB "
    Than my 2.0ghz single core amd turion 64 with a 512kb cache?
     
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    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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  3. Sir Travis D

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    twice as fast? How about for multitask and loading things. If I start my computer.
     
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    Multitasking will definitely be much smoother with the dual-core processor.

    Loading stuff usually depends more on the speed of your hard drive and less on your processor. I don't imagine the difference in processor power would have a terribly large effect on boot time or program loading. If you really wanted to speed up boot times or program loading you'd look for an SSD, which are unfortunately, still exorbitantly expensive.

    Like I can boot XP in about 40 seconds on an old Pentium M and in about 30 seconds on a T7300... and that ten second difference probably comes from 40GB 5400RPM vs 80GB 7200RPM hard drives.
     
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  5. Sir Travis D

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    ok thanks
    If I go with a laptop with a 1.8ghz intel core 2 duo (idk details... sorry) how much better is that than the 1.66ghz? thanks
     
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    If it's using the same core as the T5500 (aka another T5x00), it'll be almost imperceptible. If you're moving up to the T7x00 series (aka 4MB cache or 800MHz FSB), you might notice a difference in some CPU heavy tasks, but again, it won't be much.
     
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    The difference is very slight, and yea for everyday tasks might not see it. If you can't or won't pay for a SSD like me and a lot of others. Defragmenting your HDD regularly will help a little bit.
     
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    nah, I think he will notice a bit of an increase in speed in day to day things, and if something is multithreaded, it will blow the doors off it. The larger cache will make a big difference, as well as the new chip design.
     
    jeffmd, Mar 6, 2008
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    The biggest improvement I have noticed with dual core seems to be load times. On my single core laptop it gets bogged down at windows start loading things. The dual core desktop doesn't opening applciations much much quicker even while the system is still starting up (updating AVG etc.) because there are two cpu cores that can be assigned to different tasks.

    Basically, while one cpu core is doing something, the other can be doing something else, the overall effect is that the system feels a lot more responsive.

    Even with single threaded apps the Core 2 Duo will still perform them quicker due to being a newer more advanced cpu.
     
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    I am sorry wasn't clear, meant 1.66 vs 1.8 dual cores. Completly agree duals blow away single. :eek:
     
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    Wow!

    I deal with a 1525, 1501, compaq v5000 on a daily basis, and have not seen any "blow the doors off" using those as compared to the D810 I'm using now. And since the D810 is mine, I know for sure it is loaded with 3 times the programs as the other 3 mentioned. The 2 mentioned notebooks 1525 and 1501 are dual cores, while the v5000 has a celeron (yanah) core.
     
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