Extreme X7800 vs Penryn T9300?

So I currently have the X7800 processor right now and I'm wondering what advantages/disadvantages that it has compared to the T9300. I'm not going to compare it to the T9500 because that price is just ridiculous.

From what I see, the only thing that the X7800 wins in is the 2.6ghz and it's not overclockable on these Sagers.

The T9300 is newer technology and runs at lower voltage. It also has a 6MB L2 cache compared to the X7800's 4MB L2 cache.

Will this make the T9300 faster than the X7800 and run cooler?

Which one would you guys choose and why?

What would get me the best performance?

 

It depends, if ur planning on Oc'ing, the X7800 is probably better right?

 

I heard that the motherboards won't let you OC.

 

Up until now there really wasn't much of an advantage to the X processors because they could not be overclocked, but that is about to change.

 

The X7800 runs at 2.8 GHz, not 2.6

 

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Woo Hoo!! Thank you DONALD!! And thank Sager/Clevo for us also!! Will this be with all clevo notebooks or can you not talk about it more?

 

Yes, my mistake, I mistook it for X7900. Thanks for the correction.

 

Well, all Clevo notebooks covers a lot of models so I would have to say no, not all of them.

 

Anyone who has been following the posts about X processors should be aware that there are quite a few Clevo M570RU vendors selling the mobile X series CPU, while Sager doesn’t.

However everyone that has followed the forum threads should be aware that the reason behind this is the inability to take advantage of the unlocked mobile series CPU that you really have paid a premium for. Why pay the extra money...unless you can overclock it?

Sager tells us that a new M570RU with a new bottom case that will allow for the necessary thermal solution to handle an overclocked X processor is in the works. While there is still no Firm ETA or details of when and how it will be launched, be assured that Sager is working with Clevo very closely to get the project completed,. Typical of Sager and Clevo, they will not release it until a proper thermal solution is in place that will allow for a long life of intense use.

 

That is good news, hopefully it will come true....and the bottom case can be seperate ordered.

 

Yeah..I got a good deal on the X7800 so I got it.

 

Same (X7900).

Actually, now that i think about it it seems that there is an option in the BIOS i noticed about overclocking. And it seems to give me the option to adjust the multiplyer (this is ona new Clevo with an 8800). However i dared not toy with it. I didnt want the X7900 because it could overclock, i wanted it because it ran at 2.8Ghz =)

 

I'd be scared to OC my machine (when it comes in). I'd be afraid it'd rip a hole in space/time.

 

Ok just checked it out.

Its in Advanced Chipset options in the BIOS.

CPU Overclock : [Disabled]

I have 2 other options, "over 1x" and "over 2x". I checked the manual but i cant seem to find any information on the BIOS for some reason. So im not sure what the hell those settings do. I'm not sure i want to risk it to find out...

 

Although they were exploring battery life, here's Anandtech review on the performance difference differences:
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3195&p=3

Cheers

 

woah thats cool

 

If i had such a overclockable BIOS i will have a try.
And RobHague which BIOS Version do you have, 1.00.07 or ?

 

Yeah 1.00.07E i think it is.

 

wow, this E would be interesting, i have only a 1.00.07, btw. what is your BIOS date? Mein is 11/23/07. And when i start the NB, i see 2 BIOS versions, one ist the 1.00.07 and another is still 1.00.04 for the KB, is this normal?

 

Check out my thread pretty interesting results. http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=3019184#post3019184 T9300 equal to X7800 OC'ed to 3.0ghz.

 

Care to explain how your laptop running vista gets a higher score with a 8800GTS than all of these NP579X's with 8800GTXs?

EDIT: nvm, ur overclocked.

 

Well my GPU is overclocked, without the overclock I score 8578 with stock clocks. I didn't notice your scores, I was doing a Yahoo search for the T9300 and the top result was this thread, which had the interesting title. I was interested in the T9300 vs X7800.

 

http://www.overclock.net/laptops-notebook-computers/293505-gateway-fx-laptop-series-thread-mods.html
this is you at the end?
very weird that a penryn can kill a merom like that, especially with the 500 mhz increase for the 65nm

 

Yeah, I was surprised, I wanted the X7900 but couldn't find one, I'am glad I ended up with the T9300, very happy with it, idles at 31c. Here is PCMark05 score

 

This supports all the FUD that I have found online about how the T9300 "isn't a significant" upgrade.