T9300 vs T9500

I was just curious what the difference between these two chips were. Is the only difference between them the 100MHz clock speed? If so, is the T9500 just an "overclocked" T9300? If everything about them is the same, I might as well just make my T9300 a T9500 via overclocking.

 

It is not that easy to overclock notebooks. You will need to do it via software like clockgen.

 

The difference between those two CPUs is a significant chunk of money. You would need a stopwatch to see the difference in everyday usage. It's 4% on speed for those tasks where the CPU is the bottleneck. There's no hardware difference.

John

 

the t9300 is fast enough as it is.
the t9500 is usually overpriced.
which notebook are u talking about ?

 

Buy the T9300 and look into getting the x9000 as an upgrade. be very very careful though that thing runs very hot @ 3.4Ghz. Good news is that you can pick one up on eBay for around 300 euro!

72oo

 

Only difference is the clock speed and an extra $200.

The T9500 is the worst value chip on the market today and in no application is ever worth it when the T9300 is also an option.

 

Yeah.. I got the T9300 because the price:speed ratio of the T9500 was just rubbish. It's the best with the T9300

 

You cna buy an ES X9000 for the same price of the T9500. Though the watt usage will be a lil xtra on the X9000.

 

Heck, I'd stick with the the T8300, only 100MHz difference and half the cache with basically no performance difference in real life situations.

 

i always thought t9500 was a sweat spot in terms of power, price and watt consumption =\

edit: oh wait.. im thinking of the P9500. is there much difference between the t9500 and the P9500?

 

Nope the t9500 is pretty much rubbish. You can generally get the x9000 for the same price if you shop around.

As to the p9500 then yeah its a different animal all together. its one of the top end motivena chips. So wont run on most laptops (though it will on the newest ones that support the motivena chips)

 

T9500 is 2.6Ghz w/800Mhz FSB and TDP 35w. P9500 is 2.53Ghz w/1066Mhz FSB and 25w TDP.

 

So Intel pretty much just "downclocked" the T9500 to produce the T9300? (Or overclock the T9300 to get the T9500, depending on how you look at it) I was just curious, I'm happy with my T9300.

 

I wonder how big the jump from T9500 to X9000 is. Anyways, I don't feel confident enough to upgrade it myself!

 

The chips all come off the same wafers and are tested to see how well they work. Those that run the fastest go into the top bin and get a premium price. Those that have some defective cache get packaged as a model with a smaller cache, etc. The left-overs will appear in a year or two as budget versions with even smaller caches, lower clock speeds or even single core.

That's the theory, but I suspect Intel reclassify chips in order to balance supply and demand.

John