t9500 vs x9000

i originally ordered my m1730 with a x9000 but im reconsidering saving the 700 dollars and getiing the 2.5 ghtz. The only real difference between
them is the clock speed and the x9000 is oc able. will there be a large difference between them for a gaming performance and day 2 day? Because I might just save the 700 dollars and put it towards something else.

 

(assuming you mean 2.5 GHz T9300, not 2.6 GHz T9500)

Most games these days are GPU-bottlenecked, not CPU-bottlenecked. Even assuming the game is CPU-bottlenecked, you're looking at a 28% performance increase from a T9300 to a 3.2 GHz X9000, assuming that that 28% still leaves it CPU-bottlenecked instead of GPU-bottlenecked. Is 28% worth $700? I would say no. Especially since you can buy an X9000 for less than $700 later and sell the T9300 for a good $200 easy if you find the T9300 isn't powerful enough (unlikely IMO).

Day to day, a 600 MHz Core 2 Duo would be enough if they made one - I run that on powersaver mode and almost never have slowdowns. So you certainly wouldn't have any day-to-day slowness with the T9300 2.5 GHz at full speed.

 

Unless you are using CPU-intensive tasks, you won't see a difference (and most if not all games sans certain RTS games are GPU-bottlenecked).

It'd be nice to have a x9000 for research though.