T6400+LED or P7450+LCD

Hi all,

I'm purchasing HP pavilion DV4t laptop. I have to take a decision.

Shall I go for T6400 processor + LED screen option OR
P7450 processor + Normal LCD screen option.

LED screen and T7450 processor both costs me $100 more.

I do run computing intensive tasks like Virtual Machines on my laptop as well as I need power efficient and good screen .

Please help. Unable to decide

Early reply will be appreciated

Bull.

 

I say go for the led display as the speed bump from the cpu upgrade is not significant enough. You will really appreciate the led display over the normal lcd.

 

Agreed. It's also much harder to upgrade the LCD in the future, but relatively easy to upgrade the processor.

 

Thanks Guys.
You are pretty fast What a dynamic group

 

Hi all.

New member so be gentle. Thought I would rather post under the same topic as my question involves the same two processors.

I was pretty much dead set on a dv6-1130TX for about $1800AUD (about $1500) that runs on a P7450, 2.13GHz, 3MB L2 Cache. I just idly browsed some sites from back home in Estonia to get an idea on what something similar would cost and found a dv6-1190 with similar specs (same graphics card, same amount of RAM etc) but running on a T6400, 2.0GHz, 2MB Cache. The cost was $1272.

My question is, is it worth the extra money? Basically, I am looking for a multimedia laptop to last me a few years and not be completely hopeless at playing any newer games (GTA4, Fallout 3 etc). Mobility or battery life are not an issue.

Quick question about RAM also - i've had salesmen try to sell me on DDR3 a lot, but the way understand it, the type of RAM isn't really the bottleneck when it comes to laptop gaming?

Thanks

 

Neither processor is good enough for hardware virtualization. so get the LED screen.

You might want to read

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=946&page=3

In the Core 2 mobile camp, the P7350/7450, the T5200/5250/5270/5300/5450/5470 series, and the T6400/6570 do not support VT


@aardhaart

DDR3 gives a tiny bit of performance improvement and it is power efficent

 

So sorry I should have removed the LED vs LCD altogether and, heh, probably even started a new topic. My question doesn't involve the screen type altogether, I am merely wondering about the extra performance and the effect/money usefulness the P-series processor in comparison to the T-series.

Martinmach, thanks a lot for answering my question about DDR3 and the hint about vt.

 

P series processors are more energy efficient. They also run cooler than the equivalent T series machines. Don't get wrong idea that T series machines are more powerful. Intel delivers the same processor with more energy efficiency and charges extra money.

Take the example of T9400 and P9500. same 2.53Ghz / 6 MB cache. But TDP is rated as 25w and 35w

I say get whatever is cheaper and be satisfied. The performance in most cases is less than 10%.