T9600 or P9500

I see that the lower wattage P9500 is running at 2.53 GHZ, the T9600 is running at 2.8 GHZ. Is the 9600 worth the extra $200

Can somebody who has worked with the laptop let me know.

 

Are you talking about an up-grade or a new platform?

P.S. 200 bucks for lower than 300 MHz... and at the price of higher battery usage... looks like it's not worthy.

 

Depends on if you run any CPU dependant applications and how important that is to you.

CPU dependant apps are for example: Math calculations, image/video editing, Video/audio decoding/encoding.

You will not notice any difference in normal home/office use: text editing, surfing, playing videos/music and gaming.

I would go for the P9500 because of the lower heat and longer battery life.

 

thts the only difference if u dont travel alot u dont need longer battery life its jst the heat and mayb a bit more speed but i would nt pay 200 bucks more !

 

u wont use that much processor power, u wont feel the difference, unless ur spending 24/7 encoding

 

get the p9500

 

Yep, that's an irrefutable fact. P9500 is the worthy one.

 

P series = 1066MHz FSB, T series = 800MHz FSB. The GHz isn't the only difference

 

WRONG.

The T9600 actually has the 1066MHz FSB as well.
http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SLB47
P9500 = lower TDP and lower clock speed.

 

sorry guys, I havent done any research on monteveina, but isnt the p9500 a monteveina processor?
please correct me if I am wrong, I have not had the time to read up on intel's latest processor.

If you are using your computer even for encoding, a T9600 is pretty overkill, it is one of the fastest processors for mobile computers.
As paper mentioned, you will most likely not see any noticeable difference between the two, unless you are running apps which use 100% processing power.
The major bottleneck of almost all laptops is the harddrive and not the processor, so get a nice speedy harddrive and that will give you more performance than the slightly faster processor.

K-TRON

 

You're right. It's Montevina.

 

They are both Montevina...

 

The question should be asked is
Intel Core 2 Duo T9400 vs Intel Core 2 Duo P9500. Both are the same specs, except the T9400 is 35W TDP and the P9500 is 25W TDP, and the P9500 is more expensive.
Which one is a better way to go?

 

My mistake. I looked that up later having to do with another post on NBR and found that some of the T series have 1066FSBs. Sorry for the misinfo.

 

No way.. Jumping straight from the merom to the newer Penryns is next to impossible..!!

Though they do share the same sockets, but either the BIOS will refuse to recognise it or your motherboard won't be able to support the extra 66MHz FSB and probably go nuts or downclock to 200MHz....!!

 

gung-ho: wholeheartedly enthusiastic and loyal, eager, zealous

 

P9500 does not work.

I just tried a P9500 and upon pressing the power button, shuts right back down in about 1 second. Doesn't even begin a BIOS/Boot screen. So, out of the box a P9500 does not work in the M1330.

Suggestions on how ot get it working? Go with a T9500 instead? Wait for Dell to upgrade BIOS for a P9500?

Oh- I am trying to get more performance vs my existing T7500 2.2

Cheers...

 

I don't think Dell will ever upgrade the BIOS with the 2nd gen Penryn support, considering it as bad for their business since they will be more interested in pushing their new montevina - based notebooks out of the stores....
You can upgrade the BIOS to the latest version and try out the T9300, it should work, since penryn support was added since the A07 BIOS revision and my D630 supported the X9000 with the A09 BIOS....

And upgrade it only if your warranty is dead/expired, and you can get a good trade-off price for the T7500, because you will not see a significant or 'huge' increase in real-world performance even with a T9500..!! The T7500 is good enough for almost all games and CPU-intensive tasks..!! You can probably try upgrading the ram or the HDD to make the notebook more picky....

 

The T processors you can use with the M1330 are the T8100/T8300/T9300/T9500. In addition to that, you can also use the X9000. To be honest, what are your needs? The T7500 is a very decent processor as it is. You won't see very much difference with any of those chips.