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    T5750 vs T7250 vs T8100?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by purplegreendave, Jul 16, 2008.

  1. purplegreendave

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    Roughly same clock speed, so is the price jump worth it?
    I'm tryin' to minimize the cost everywhere possible.
     
    purplegreendave, Jul 16, 2008
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    T5750 - Go for it if on a tight budget....
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    T7250 - The extra 133MHz FSB won't make much of a difference in the overall experience (a negligible increase), not even in CPU-intensive tasks (Photo-editing, audio/video encoding/decoding, etc)....(and ram will run at 667MHz despite the 800MHz FSB)
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    T8100 - Again the extra 1MB L2 cache and 133MHz FSB won't make much of a difference in the overall experience, except in CPU-intensive tasks....though a Penryn is said to run a bit cooler and provide more battery life than a Merom....but again won't make much of a difference..!!

    And all share same features such as EIST, XD-Bit....etc (SSE4.1 was added to Penryns)

    For a better overall computing experience, go for about 2-3GB ram and a faster HDD....
     
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    So the ~€150 gap really isn't worth it?
    For that I can get a WLED screen, upgrade to 320gig HD, and upgrade to 4gig RAM...
     
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    get the t7250. any t5xxx is too sucky for me
     
    boypogi, Jul 17, 2008
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    It depends if you run any CPU intensive stuff like: math calculations, video and image editing, recoding and decoding. It does not matter much for everyday use (surfing, music, games).

    If you do run CPU intensive stuff go for the T8100, it's quite a bit faster: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php
     
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    Thats alot of upgrade for €150....!! Go for the screen, HDD, and Ram (64-bit OS)....
     
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    On the XPS M1330:
    WLED = €80
    HD (250 -> 320) = €30
    3 -> 4gig RAM (3 is standard on the red) = € 30

    €140
     
    purplegreendave, Jul 17, 2008
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