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    P8400, P8600 or P9500 for NP8660

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by TimBeConfused, Jul 26, 2008.

  1. TimBeConfused

    TimBeConfused Notebook Enthusiast

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    I know this issue has been discussed before but I am interested in possibly keeping my order price under 2k if I could.

    I plan on doing a good amount of gaming, but not really video editing or any other CPU intensive stuff. If not for gaming I could easily get by purchasing a good business class notebook for word processing/internet surfing, but alas I love me some games.

    Since the 8660 comes with the 9800M GT, will it be the bottleneck no matter what CPU I choose in this case?

    Assuming the video card is the bottleneck and I dont plan on doing CPU intensive tasks beyond gaming very often I wouldn't benefit much in the future from going with the P9500 more than likely, correct?

    I appreciate your thoughts on the issue.
     
    TimBeConfused, Jul 26, 2008
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  2. AdamU

    AdamU Notebook Consultant

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    CPU makes very very little difference in games if any at all. video card will definitely be the bottle neck before your cpu is
     
    AdamU, Jul 26, 2008
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  3. TimBeConfused

    TimBeConfused Notebook Enthusiast

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    So you think I'll be fine with the 8400 or 8600 and shouldnt worry about it. My current rid has an AMD Hammer processor at 2.21ghz I cant remember the exact CPU name but I'm sure I'll be happy with any of the processors I just want to be sure i'm not handicapping myself in anyway for the future.
     
    TimBeConfused, Jul 26, 2008
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    p8600 best bang for the bucks
     
    boypogi, Jul 26, 2008
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  5. AdamU

    AdamU Notebook Consultant

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    i went for the P8400 on my laptop, .2 ghz more for the p8600 is not worth the $50 to me since I don't do any sort of mathematical equations or encoding on my computer
     
    AdamU, Jul 26, 2008
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