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    Processor Advice

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by redochs, Jul 10, 2008.

  1. redochs

    redochs Newbie

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    I am trying to decide between processor options and would like some advice.

    The first is a C2D T7250(2.00GHz) and the second is a C2D T8100(2.10GHz). I know that the T8100 has a greater clock and L2, but how noticeable will the difference be?

    For the same price of the T8100 with 2gb ram and a 200gb 5400 drive (everything else the same), I can get the T7250 with 4gb ram and a 200gb 7200 drive...

    what should I go with?
     
    redochs, Jul 10, 2008
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  2. ckh20051988

    ckh20051988 Notebook Consultant

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    if you are limited by a budget, then i think i would go for T7250
     
    ckh20051988, Jul 10, 2008
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  3. boypogi

    boypogi Man Beast

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    go for the t8100. ram are cheap to get and cpu's are not. the 7200rpm will shorten battery life and the life of the notebook because of the heat
     
    boypogi, Jul 10, 2008
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  4. Razor2

    Razor2 Notebook Deity

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    You will only notice any difference between them if you do some very CPU intensive tasks, like video encoding. But even then it will only be noticeable in benchmarks.

    So I would say get the 7250, the faster drive and the 4Gb Ram and all in all it will be a faster machine, for the best results buy a 64Bit OS with it.
     
    Razor2, Jul 10, 2008
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  5. flipfire

    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    T8100 definately.

    Its the newer gen Penryn chip which runs on the 45nm process meaning cooler,faster and better battery life.

    The T7250 is an older gen Merom chip. L2 cache makes little difference for everyday tasks.
     
    flipfire, Jul 10, 2008
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    Razor2 Notebook Deity

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    It is cooler and has slightly better battery life, but its not noticeably faster.
     
    Razor2, Jul 10, 2008
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    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    Yes not noticable but it is faster.

    You wont be able to tell the difference between 1.6 to 2.2ghz for normal everyday programs. Only cpu intensive tasks like video encoding benefits from the cpu's raw clockspeed.

    The benchmarks using wPrime (the lower time the faster) :
    Penryn Core 2 Duo T8100 @ 2.1GHz - 37.736s
    Merom Core 2 Duo T7250 @ 2.0GHz - 43.569s
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    MeromCore 2 Duo T7500 @ 2.2GHz - 38.343s

    The T8100 is even better than the Merom T7500 2.2ghz on syntethic benchmarks. The newer generation Penryn chips are more efficient than Meroms in all counts.
     
    flipfire, Jul 10, 2008
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  8. SlimShady

    SlimShady ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒ&

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    This is just an observation from a computer illiterate here................but in reading over most of the benchmarking threads, it seems that people have noticed improvement in frame rates in FPS's games as well as RTS games from doing nothing more than a processor upgrade. I don't have the specifics in memory but if you read this board you'll see what I mean. That said, why does everyone keep insisting the the processor doesn't matter "as much" when playing games and that you won't see any improvement or you'll see only limited improvement if you do an upgrade?

    FWIW I upgraded from a T7100 (1.8 Ghz) to a T9300 (2.5 Ghz) and saw a significant improvement in COD4, WIC as well as Crysis.
     
    SlimShady, Jul 10, 2008
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