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    What is better for power and battery life SU9600 or SL9600?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by ghurty, Nov 19, 2009.

  1. ghurty

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    What is better for power and battery life SU9600(1.6GHz, 3MB L2 Cache) or a SL9600(2.13GHz, 6MB L2 Cache)?

    The specs on the SL9600 sound better but for some reason the SU9600 is more expensive on HP.

    Thanks
     
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    moral hazard Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    SU9600 and SL9600 both run b/w 1.050V-1.150V. The SU9600 runs at 800Mhz FSB, the SL9600 at 1066Mhz. Both have superlfm mode so will half the FSB at idle, both have max multiplier of x8.

    Agree with Moral_Hazard, I'd get the SL9600 and use rmclock to do advanced undervolting and have ~10W max TDP at full load with the higher performance profile on AC.
     
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  4. Serg

    Serg Nowhere - Everywhere

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    I agree. The SL9600 is MUCH faster than the SU9600 too.

    For battery life the SU9600 is better, as it natively runs a lot lower, but it is limited to a lower clock and FSB.

    L series > U series

    S means it is small package
     
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    moral hazard Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    On a side note, I have found when you lower the FSB, you can lower the voltage a lot more than if you lower the multi, clock for clock.

    So hypothetically if you underclock the SL to an 800mhz FSB, it should give the same if not better battery life then the SU.
     
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  6. Serg

    Serg Nowhere - Everywhere

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    Really?
    That much consumes the FSB?

    Perhaps you could write about it on a guide or something?
     
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    moral hazard Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    I can do the tests for you, and maybe you can write the guide.

    Here are some rough results:
    EDIT: wrong stuff posted, I will get you results tomorrow.
    EDIT#2, maybe ignore my post for now, I will follow up on this tomorrow.
     
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  8. Serg

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    Sure thing. I can do it.

    Let me know when you get the results.
    Thanks!
     
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    What type of battery saving difference would be between the two?

    This notebook will be mainly for portability, I have a more powerful regular notebook.

    Thanks
     
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