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    np9261 upgrade E8400 > Q9650

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by hanko panko, May 9, 2009.

  1. hanko panko

    hanko panko Notebook Evangelist

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    I am doing quite a lot of dataprocessing these days and after I learned that Excel 2007 utilizes all cores, I checked with Sager if upgrading to a Q9650 was possible.

    Sager told me to verify my motherboard version, there should be a sticker on on the memory slots telling v5.2 or higher, and they provided me with a new Bios (version 20).

    After updating my Bios I swapped processors and WOW, this Q9650 outperforms my "old" E8400 by a factor two! (wPrime)!
     
    hanko panko, May 9, 2009
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  2. pasoleatis

    pasoleatis Notebook Deity

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    The result is expected, with q9650 it will use 4 threads at 3GHz while with E8400 2 threads at 3GHz.

    PL
     
    pasoleatis, May 10, 2009
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    Gophn NBR Resident Assistant

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    yup. the quad-core's will crush the fastest of dual cores in a multi-threaded environment.
     
    Gophn, May 10, 2009
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