T5600 (2MB L2) Vs. T7200 (4MB L2)

many people in the Forum have already suggested Coreduo 2.0GHz is just little faster than 1.83GHz, conssidering both have the same Cache (2M) However, anybody know, with ragard to Core2duo, how much the T7200 (4MB L2) is fater than T5600 (2MB L2)??

 

well since they have the same clock speeds as their previous ones... its the same amount faster... but the only difference is the amount of L2 cache they have so that will make the t7200 communicate faster... but the clock speed difference is still .17ghz also there is approx a rated increase of 20% but real life actual difference of around 5-10% between core duo and core 2 duo, so it'd be nice to see a benchmark table of all 4 proc's... if anybody can provide one?

 

Most people greatly overestimate the amount of power they need. There is not a significant difference between the two processors, and you will notice zero difference doing regular stuff. What are you going to do with the notebook?

 

Chaz is right. It is unlikely that you will tax your processor enough to even notice the difference.

You could probably even go with a low-end Core Duo and be fine if you are an average user.

 

Considering I can't seem to find any which way to overclock my 1.83 Core 2 Duo through the BIOS, I'm regretfully considerfing getting a better processor.. ONe of the main reasons I got this laptop was for gaming and particularly the Total War series, and their sequal Medieval 2 is CPU demanding as much as it is GPU dependent. Every couple hundred megahertz would definitely be noticable FPS wise. On that note, is there *any* way to overclock the Meroms on the Sager 5760? I don't wanna do anything extreme or even intermmediate, just minimal to see if I see any FPS difference in Rome Total War.

 

There is no way to overclock the CPU as far as I know.

How did you determine that the CPU was limiting your gameplay? The T2400 is an extremely powerful processor and I doubt that upgrading to a Merom is going to noticably improve your frames per second.

 

From my experience when lagging only from one game it is more rewarding to tweak the games setting. First start by identifying what is causing it to lag (aka monitoring your Pages /sec, Memory usage, CPU usage,...) When you figure out what is causing the problems try to tweak that aspect of the game. For example AC2 was infamous for a bad sound system. So whenever you had anything else then an audigy2 you would be lagging. What I idid is try the game with and without sound and I finally realised that sound was the problem. I then proceeded to lower every possible sound intensive settings and I ended up gaining around 20 fps. Overclocking in most case adds no notable difference (well yes it adds the difference that your processor goes up in flame in around 2 years....).


Otto.

 

My question might be off the topic.
Where can I find the comparison between T2400(1.83G) vs T2500 (2G) vs T2600 (2.16G) on same system? When I build my T60 on Lenovo site, there is ~$200 gap between T2400 and T2600 (no T2500 available). I figured maybe it is wise to spend those money on Ram and 7200rpm HD, if the difference of those two processor is little.

Please advice, thanks.

 

deodeo: The 2600 will be the fastes. That's really all there is to it. It'll go up in amounts linearly correlated to the MHz. But for overall performance, the extra RAM and the hard drive will be bigger wins in perception of speed. Processor speed is almost never the bottleneck in modern systems. It's more often amount of RAM, RAM bandwidth, and in the case of games, GPU speed.

 

Well I have a 1.83Ghz MEROM (t5600), 7900GTX. 2GBddr2RAM@667mhz

I just think I should be able to run the MTW2 demo better than I am. It doesn't run chuggy and I can max out the settings but then I only get about 20fps. I suppose I can' t have everything.

At the time of my previous posting I hadn't yet got the M2TW demo. Now that I have it, it seems my 7900 maybe what's holding me back. But from what I know about the 7900 that shouldn't be so. People with lesser GPUs but amd64FXs seem to play it pretty well, which still suggests a CPU bottleneck.

 

I guess they will be.

 

If you have the extra $200 to spend, then I'd definitely spend it on extra RAM and a 7200rpm HDD, in that order. You'll only ever notice the extra CPU power in processor intensive tasks like media encoding and the like. In day to day tasks you'll be hard pressed to tell the difference.