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    Old Desktop vs. New Laptop Question

    Discussion in 'HP' started by Wolfborne, Apr 23, 2011.

  1. Wolfborne

    Wolfborne Notebook Guru

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    I am replacing my 3 year old desktop (custom built) with a new laptop from HP. I am curious if anyone would have any idea of performance increase (or decrease... :rolleyes: ) I would get between the old and new.

    Old Desktop
    Intel Core 2 Duo E6700
    2.66 GHz 4mb L2 cache
    2gb 800 MHz RAM
    Radeon X1950 Pro 512mb DDR3 128/256 bit GPU

    New laptop on order
    HP dv7t quad
    i7-2630qm 2.0GHz (turbo to 2.9)
    6gb 1333 MHz RAM
    Radeon 6770m 1gb DDR5 128 bit GPU
     
    Wolfborne, Apr 23, 2011
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  2. Bag3l

    Bag3l Notebook Evangelist

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    Horse vs. Ferrari
    Done.
     
    Bag3l, Apr 23, 2011
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  3. scy1192

    scy1192 Notebook Consultant

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    No contest; the new laptop kicks the desktop's *butt*.
     
    scy1192, Apr 24, 2011
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  4. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    Yeah, a lot of mid and high-end Penryns were already faster than the E6700. With the 2630, it's no contest.
     
    Commander Wolf, Apr 24, 2011
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  5. Bullit

    Bullit Notebook Deity

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    Double the CPU speed at least, triple the ram, 2-3x better the GPU.
    Now if you only used it for office and some web browsing not much difference.
     
    Bullit, Apr 24, 2011
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