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    Sager NP8662 : P8600 (default stock) vs P9600

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by m4ttjirM, Apr 27, 2009.

  1. m4ttjirM

    m4ttjirM Notebook Guru

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    Hi,

    I have ordered my new NP8662 and am expecting it within the first week of May (Thanks to Justin W.) @ Xoticpc

    Vista 64 Bit
    320 GB 7200 RPM HD
    4 GB Ram
    **P8600 Processor**
    All the rest pretty much the norm...

    Will I notice a huge difference in performance between the 8600 and the 9600?
    I know the 9600 is clocked at 2.66, compared to the 8600's 2.40 and that the cache is set to 6MB rather than 3MB. Will I notice a huge real world performance difference? I noticed that with benchmarks there was very little minimal differences between these two processors, and I would love to save the ~$200.

    Would I regret getting the 8600 instead of the 9600? I know I can always get one off eBay or newegg in the future if I decided to upgrade eventually.

    I have been doing research for a few months now and I have determined this is the laptop I want. I am still running my desktop at my house which is a P4 2.4 GHZ 533 FSB / 1 GB Ram / 80 GB HD / GEFORCE 4 TI 4200 -- and believe it or not this self built machine is still running strong for about 7 years now, and actually running SOME current games.... with a yearly reformat, and maybe 1 HD replaced in that time. LOL can you believe it?
     
    m4ttjirM, Apr 27, 2009
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  2. Gophn

    Gophn NBR Resident Assistant

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    Welcome to the NBR forums. :)

    Congrats on the new system.

    the CPU difference is marginal and wont really translate to a noticeable difference in gaming.

    .... only noticeable if you are doing heavy number crunching that's multi-threaded... like audio/video editing/converting/rendering, etc...

    save your money to get a quad-core CPU later on since prices are starting to go down.
     
    Gophn, Apr 27, 2009
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  3. sgogeta4

    sgogeta4 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Agreed w/ Gophn. Save your $200.
     
    sgogeta4, Apr 27, 2009
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  4. Kevin

    Kevin Egregious

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    I vote for the Q9000 at +$170, $5 more than the P9600 you're considering.
     
    Kevin, Apr 27, 2009
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  5. m4ttjirM

    m4ttjirM Notebook Guru

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    Hi,
    Thank you for the prompt responses, and answering the question at hand dead on point :)

    Yeah, that Q9000 looks good, but I really wanted to save the 170 - 200 bucks.
    Maybe sometime in the future I will ugprade it. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't going to regret getting the 8600 or that it would be holding the laptop back or something. Because then I would have nothing but guilt instead of happiness about the new machine :)

    As soon as I get the laptop in my hands i'll be on this forum doing whatever kind of tests / takin camera pics / etc that everyone requests. :D
     
    m4ttjirM, Apr 27, 2009
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  6. Kevin

    Kevin Egregious

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    All I'm saying is, skip the P9600, if you do upgrade. Here's a post I recently made:
     
    Kevin, Apr 27, 2009
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  7. Stuckinabox

    Stuckinabox Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hey m4ttjirM, did you hear if they got the new shipment yet? I ordered mine on the 11th and the building seems to have been pushed back.
     
    Stuckinabox, Apr 28, 2009
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  8. m4ttjirM

    m4ttjirM Notebook Guru

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    Hi,

    Not sure... I ordered mine a few days ago, I called Sager directly and they said they should have all their resellers orders in by the first week of May... I'll give them some time to assemble and ship, etc... Really anxiously waiting though...
     
    m4ttjirM, Apr 28, 2009
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