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    T5600 vs T7200

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Indoexile, Sep 16, 2006.

  1. Indoexile

    Indoexile Notebook Enthusiast

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    How much of a difference does the extra 2MB L2 chace and the speed boost make?
     
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    burningrave101 Notebook Deity

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    The extra cache and higher clock speed will make as much as a 10-15% difference in certain applications that benefit from more L2 cache i would say. In most areas the difference is likely less then 10%.
     
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    Indoexile Notebook Enthusiast

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    in respects to gaming?
     
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    syxbit Notebook Evangelist

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    i've always said it.... you can fake clockspeed (by OC'ing) but you can never fake cache!
     
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    quiong Notebook Consultant NBR Reviewer

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    Check out these benchmarks by anandtech: these are the core 2 conroe desktop processors but the general idea still applies.. they underclocked a X6800 (with 4 mb cache) to the same speed as an E6300 (with 2 mb cache) to see how much difference the cache makes, when clockspeeds are equal.

    http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2795&p=4

    With respect to gaming, the difference is mostly around 1-5% basically unoticable. In most games you'll be GPU limited anyway.
     
    quiong, Sep 16, 2006
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