T7500, Good, bad, or meh?

I know with the new Penryn processors out and all that the T7500 (2.2ghz, 4MB) may not seem as flashy, but for light to moderate gaming (WOW, CS, TF2) and multi-tasking work related programs such as remote assistance apps it should be more than enough right? I am just wondering how it stacks up in general as a processor. Also, the games would be assisted by a Mobility Radeon 2600 512MB and 4GB RAM. Mainly I am inquiring about the processor. Tanks.

 

It'll serve you fine... WoW could run on a toaster over... TF2 and CS are no different...I have a 7200 and dont have issues at all.

 

Yup more than enough. It is usually the GFX card that slows the rest of the computer down (aka bottleneck)

So if your gonna game make sure you get the best gpu possible

 

the T7500 is much cheaper than these t8xxx and t9xxx and not much slower, I researched it a lot when I was thinking about upgrading my GPU.

and I found that most of Penryn hypes are not true.

on paper , it should improve battery life by 12 percent or whatever , but in actual use , I dont see any difference , too late though since I got T8300 already.

sorry but Pernys are not up-to-date for a long time either since they dont come with a new chip set like Meroms did with the Santa rosa.

Current Penryns are just another Santarosa , since it is not optimized for Montevina, so I think when the Montevina comes out , these current Penryns are already outdated or become like the first generation Core2 duos such as T5600, T5300.ETC.

I guess what I am trying to say is it's not worth it if you have Santarosa already.

If I can do it one more time, I will get a T7500 laptop and save my money or spend my money for something else, like more powerful Graphics or more ram .etc.

I may just keep current one until July and get a Montevina , looks like much more serious upgrade than going for a current Penryn that does not even have faster FSB or more L2C.

 

I noticed that the 7500 even has more L2 cache than some of the new Penryns (eg 8100). What is the main improvement of the Penryns, better battery life?

 

yeah, thats it

 

And less heat. The the same current passing through a longer wire produces more heat than the same current passing through a shorter wire (Ohm's Law, IIRC). So since the Penryns have 45nm technology and it's shorter than the 65nm technology, the same current has to pass through a shorter distance so heat dissipation is lower. At least, that's my understanding of it - feel free to correct me since I could very well be in the wrong.

 

T7500 is very solid CPU!

 

penryns are noticably better than the last gen chips..first off the run way cooler, something like 15C better than my t7300 did. second off the real penryns have more cache ~ aka 6mb vs my t7300's 4mb. Also there are some architecture revisions that make it a tad faster aswell.

Deff not worth it in an upgrade, but in a new machine it should be a no brainer. I also undervolted mine, so iv actually gained about a half hour or a tad more of battery life, and another 10c drop in temps, so we're talkin about a 25C full load diff and about a 15C diff in idle temps (see sig)

even if you dont play with volts it's still worth it