Np8662 Cpu

I will have my first m860tu very soon. But i'm still unsure about the cpu choice that i'll be making---P8700, P9600 and Q9000. I'm leaning toward q9000 a bit more. but can any one confirm with 3dmark scores or actual gaming performance? I'd really appreciate your help! and thanks in advance!

 

and yes the vendor is selling them for about the same price which is a dillema to me now.

 

Check the link in my sig for actual gaming performance. I did that thread in response to so many making false claims about the 2.0 Ghz Q9000 saying that it would suffer in gaming claiming that it would not perform well or would be too slow.

Also, if you want to play GTA IV well the Q9000 is a good one to get. I would expect a Core2Duo to get more battery life but I haven't tested this either way.

Performance feels a lot better now that I have 4GB RAM and Windows 7 X64 though, it seems to make much better use of the multiple Cores.

 

I would much more recomand the P9600... heat will be better, you will perform greater overclock on the video card.
And a Q9000 would limit ur performance more even if it is quad core, because its frequency is simply too low...

I sell a QX9300 for a good price, but I'm originally from europe.

 

How would a Q9000 limit the performance, explain?

Do you see any limited performance in this link http://tinyurl.com/Q9000-Performance-Thread

 

WOW i'm more confused!

you've got a great review there Laptopnut. And crysis at 1680 with a min of 35, that's just quite impressive. wish i could have framerates of a p9600 at the same ingame setting.

and my np8662 will come in 1920by1200, again at this res, which cpu will be better with gaming? thx for all your input!

 

The best CPU for crysis performance is a T9900.
I'm 100% sure.

I compared my QX9300 with my X9100 , my X9100 performs better. at crysis, every setting High ( unlike LaptopNut who set some to medium ) at 1680 x 1050 I got 31,5 fps in DX10 high with my X9100 / 29,8 fps with my QX9300, and even at CPU benchmark for crysis , my X9100 performs better than my QX9300.

 

The FPS difference from different CPUs in Crysis is miniscule at best. It was designed to run on Core Duos from before Penryn, anything will do. I would recommend the Q9000 or a better quad, and here's why: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=411615

 

After switching to Windows 7 X64 with the 4GB of RAM, performance in Crysis has improved a lot. Also bare in mind that in XP, there are a few issues with Crysis polling for battery and wifi levels which can lower frame rates and cause stuttering.

I will check the frame rates in Windows 7 later. I believe Crysis is more dependent on GPU, than CPU power.

Take a look at this benchmark at 1680 X 1200 in Crysis

http://uk.gamespot.com/features/6182806/p-6.html

Now I don't know how accurate these results are but look at the Core2 Extreme X6800 @ 2.93GHz compared to the Core2 Duo E6300 @ 1.86GHz results.

EDIT: I set everything in Crysis to high and I was getting max of 37-39 fps, lowest I saw was 25 fps, most constant was 31 fps. It all depends what location you are at, number of enemies etc, however, I still recommend setting some values to medium since they don't impact how good the game looks much but improve performance a lot.

 

I may make my thread.
About Crysis ( diverse benchmarck )

With QX9300 stock vs X9100 stock GTX 260M stock
QX9300 OC ( 8% ) vs X9100 OC ( 8% ) GTX 260M stock

QX9300 stock vs X9100 stock GTX 260M OC
QX9300 OC ( 8% ) vs X9100 OC ( 8% ) GTX 260M OC

QX9300 OC vs X9100 stock
QX9300 with GTX 260M OC vs X9100 GTX 260M stock
QX9300 OC GTX 260M OC vs X9100 GTX 260M stock

 

Hmmmm, finally it becomes clear. Just coming across a thread about new clevo models having like 8 [email protected]! multicores are the way to go, yup
@laptopnut, yeah your link actually explains a lot!
@MikjoA sure it's nice to have a qx9300 like you do, but i kinda have a budget to play with, anyways looking forward to your real gaming results!
@anothergeek, you've got a point there, but some data seems to be missing by STALKER Clear Skies!

 

Is your Crysis patched to the most recent versions?

 

it's patched to 1.21