t9500 vs. x7900

Which processor would be better as an upgrade? The older x7900 or the newer t9500?

t9500 = 2.6ghz 6mb L2 cache
x7900 = 2.8ghz 4mb L2 cache

I'm thinking about upgrading my t7500, do you guys think it's worth it? The t7500 seems a bit laggy to me. I usually have lots of programs open, and do loads of modeling/rendering work.

 

The T9500 is probably a little bit better. Higher performance per clock should make up for the 300MHz decrease in clock speed and then you've got an extra 2MB of L2 Cache. The T9500 will run cooler as well and you may even see a substantial increase in battery life.

I don't think either processor is a significant performance upgrade from the T7500. In your case, I guess if you do enough CPU intensive work you'll start to see some gains, but in general I wouldn't pull off such an upgrade.

 

X7900 if pushed will win but highly doubt you will push. And unlocked for whatever that is worth. Real world I would not buy either as price is way to much to be a test baby! T9300 is the way to go!

 

I don't think you can upgrade from T7500 to X7900. The T7500 power requirement is 35W while X7900's is 44W

http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SLA44
http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SLA33

 

but it is offered on the dell site for m6300's so shouldn't it work?

 

actually they only offer the x9000

 

always get a penryn instead of merom. x9000 and x7900 both are priced equally.

Did u try maximizing all other components like RAM and fastest HDD. I think T7500 should be good enough for most tasks.

 

I second that! (though I'd also take T9500 over X7900 even though it is ~2% slower cause penryn is 4-5% faster than merom but X7900 has a 7.6% clockspeed advantage but performance doesn't scale exactly w/ clockspeed and the penryn has a bigger cache etc. etc. etc... X9000 is best but frankly you'll pretty much never be CPU limited with any of these procs. T9300 and T8300 are only a smidge slower but are half the price or less, thats what I'd get)

oh wait... you're upgrading from a T7500 why??

 

It will work if it's offered, yes. Most laptops are incompatible with the Extreme Edition chips due to their high power requirements.

What's the reasoning behind upgrading the processor? You're not going to notice a difference between a T7500 and an Extreme for most general usage . . . for encoding/rendering and other timed tasks, yes, but even then . . . probably not worth a few hundred dollars.

You're better off getting more RAM unless you already have 2GB. Or, get a faster hard drive (7200RPM), which will benefit overall system performance more than anything.

 

I agree and the way I have expressed once or twice. Is unless you pull a stop watch out. I mean, perception of passage of time is very subjective. Unless your notebook is going to go to the Olympics or go pro in sports who measures (leave out scientists I know)? If something takes 20 vs 25 minutes whats it matter (if you sit and watch it you have bigger issues)? It goes down from there 20 vs 25 seconds? I love benchmarks so I do have a stop watch mentality but even I recognize the real world uselessness of my obsession. Buy smart, if you buy the best tomorrow it will not be the day after so to keep up will have to do again. A very expensive proposition my friends!