T8300 Vs P7350

Hi there,

I want to buy a laptop and I was wondering which of these two components was the best ?

Intel Centrino 2 Core 2 Duo P7350
VS
INTEL CORE 2 DUO T8300

Is there a big difference between these two ?

Thanks

 

The T8300 is faster than the P7350 while the P7350 is cooler and has better battery life. The thermal design power of the P7350 is 25w vs. 35w of the T8300.

If you are running applications that are CPU dependant, like maths, video photo and sound editing, coding and decoding the T8300 will be about 10% faster.

With 3d gaming, surfing, office, music and video playing it will be very hard to notice any difference.

 

The T8300 is listed here: It runs at 2.4GHz with 800MHz FSB and has 35W TDP.

The P7350 seems to be so new that it is not in the NBR CPU guide. However, it is a new Montevina compatible CPU with the 1066MHz FSB and the 25W TDP.

The T8300 will be faster. It may use a little more power. Or it may be that Intel are just more confident about the maximum power requirements of the Penyrn CPUs and have reduced the maximum power rating.

John

 

Thanks both for your answers

So which one for maths Philflow ?

 

T8300 will be faster with maths or other CPU dependant applications.

 

Thank you Philflow,

Happy having found someone for help.
I'm French and no one in France seems to know about P7350, which seems to be new, thus i am surprised you tell me that T8300 (older) would be better ?

 

Yes I understand. It's because the latest Pxxxx have shown a very small performance improvement over the Txxxx CPUs at the same frequency.

The T8300 runs at 2.4Ghz and the P7350 at 2.0Ghz. In this table you can see that the T8300 is even faster than the P8400 running at 2.26Ghz.
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Processors-Benchmarklist.2436.0.html

Since T8300 is faster than P8400, it will definetely be faster than P7350.

 

Ok of course...

Here is thus the laptop i think i am going to buy (as you seem to know well about, i show it to you so that you can tell me what you think about) :


DELL LATITUDE D830
INTEL CORE 2 DUO T8300
(2.40GHZ/3MO/800MHZ/35W)
CHIPSET GM 965
15.4" WXGA - 1280X800 (i'm wondering if i would rather upgrade to WSXGA+ (1680X1050) ? )
NVIDIA 140M 256MO (is that OK ?)
2GO RAM (1X2GO) 667MHZ
160GO DISQUE 7200 TPM
IEEE-1394 / SVIDEO / VGA
GRAVEUR DVD +/-RW 8X
WIFI 54 MBPS (A/B/G)
BLUETOOTH 2.1 EDR
BATTERIE 6 CELLS (wondering if i would rather upgrade to 9 cells ?)
VISTA FAMILY BASIC


It is for surfing, office, music, video playing, eventually 3d gaming and maths

 

The P7350 is the bottom end of the Montevina-compatible CPUs with the faster FSB while the T8300 is in the middle of the range of the Penryn CPUs.

The 20% extra clock speed will far outweigh any benefit provided by the faster FSB.

John

 

A few notes on your config.

-Buying RAM from Dell is expensive. If you don't mind upgrading yourself you can save money buy buying the smallest amount from Dell and the rest yourself.
-As far as I know Dell D830 will be replaced within a couple of weeks by the E5000/E6000 series.
-I would choose the higher resolution display option. 1280*800 is very low for 15.4" imo.
-I don't know enough about your GPU to comment about whether it is suitable for 3d gaming.
-The 9 cell upgrade makes sense if you need the battery life. Check the reviews to see how much battery life it gets. Here's one review for example:
http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=3931

 

For John :

Ok so you agree with Philflow, T8300 would be better

 

For Philflow :

- Yes D830 is replaced by E6500 but is cheaper and quite OK for me I think. No need for E6500 i guess.
- Ok for the resolution of the screen, i think that i would have done it, thank you for confirmation
- Can anyone help about NVIDIA 140M 256Mo ??

 

Thanks ! You can't find that in French websites !

 

Here's a review in French:
http://www.notebookcheck.biz/Critique-du-Dell-Latitude-D830.5364.0.html

http://www.notebookcheck.biz/Dell-Latitude-D830.6077.0.html

 

is there a big diffrence in performance between T8100 and P8400?in other words: is it worthpaying 200euros more for another configuration -that suits my wishes- which has the P8400?