T8100 vs T9300? processor help?

I know the T9300 is faster but is it worth the price? Im looking at an m15x by alienware with a 8800Gtx, will it bottleneck my gpu if I were to buy the cheaper one. The reason I ask about these two and not the ones in between is simply a general rule of thumb I buy the cheapest one that has the highest cache.



The T8100 and 8300 have a 3mb cache
The rest, the T9300, T9500 and X9000 have a 6mb cache. The T9300 is the cheapest of the ones with a 6mb cache. So as a rule of thumb that should be the one I buy, but it is a much higher cost up the ladder than Im used to for the largest cache, is it worth it and will getting a T8100 bottleneck a 8800GTX?

 

T8100 or T8300 should be all you need for games and such,,, but that is just my oppinion


bigO

 

If you have to have it now, I would recommend the T8100 or T8300. I think the price for the T9500 overshadows the benefits for it.

 

Games need more GPU power than CPU.You'll be fine with T8100 or T8300. T9300 is better if you are going to do Encoding/Rendering stuff.I think T8300 is the sweetspot for you.

 

T9300 is not worth extra money.

 

The T8300 is currently the best bang for your buck chip. It has plenty of processing power, it runs cool, and it has a new 45nm architecture si it uses less power.

I would go for the T8300, and upgrade to a T9500 or omething like that in a year or two when th eprice is much lower.
Chances are anyways that the graphics card is going to be the limiting factor even with the T8300.

Just make sure to get 3-4gb of ram and a speedy harddrive. It will effect performance more than an extra 1mb of l2 cache and a few Mhz.

K-TRON

 

Depends on the game. A real time strategy game like Supreme Commander will make weak CPUs suffer.

Doing a 25-man raid in WoW will push your CPU too despite how easy WoW is on resources in general.

Getting overall better performance is good too. I feel better when something boots in 55 seconds rather than 1 min. Or when something loads in 20 seconds rather than 25. With a slow system, you might as well run to use the bathroom or get a snack during the long loads cause it's annoying seeing the progress bar stall at points.

 

true, but the T8300 isn't a slow processor

 

i oc'ed my [email protected], same performance as x9000 w/o spending half thousand.

 

I really hope you're not getting the AW, regardless of the CPU.
There are so many better options out there,don't make the same mistake as many have.

 

what laptop do u have atm, and how did u oc'ed it through the bios or software?

 

Moved to a T8300 from a T5550 myself - incredible upgrade.
It's the sweet spot for this generation until the T9500 comes down in price.