Is there any actuall difference ?

Hi, I have a question : Is there any actuall difference between T8300 and T9300 ? is there very much deffrence in performace ? Thnx

 

The T9300 has twice the cache. If cache is not important to you (i.e. the programs you use do not perform better given more cache), then there is very little difference (about 4%).

 

Thnx, what i'm facing here is when I open some programs it takes little bit time I hate that delay and the circle arrow I'm seeing it alot is that because this cache ?

 

If you wanna know the truth, this is it :

Apart from the XPS M1530, I have a Toshiba Qosmio G35-AV650 as well. It has a T2500 2.0Ghz processor. And till date, I have not actually seen ANY discernible difference between the two. Sometimes I wonder, why did I pay an extra US$350 for the T9500.

I've heard that it helps video processing, games and heavy applications. And I say, it doesn't show. And even if it does, it's like a second or two max.

The bottom line is, T8300 has the best performance to price ratio. You will NOT notice any difference between the T9300 and the T8300. Period. Trust me, I know.

 

Not video processing. Video encoding. Any program dependent on cache will benefit. Large applications less so, since they are dependent on lots of libraries, not all of which can fit on the cache at a time..

 

Weird. I noticed a lot of difference between my old D820's performance (T2500) and the XPS1330 that I returned (T9500). The start-up time was cut in half, and opening programmers was ever so snappier. That being said, the XPS did have 4 GB of RAM, whereas my D820 only has 2 GB.

 

Not necessarily. How fast a given program works is a function of the slowest component that it depends on (the bottleneck). A very fast CPU matched with slow RAM, a slow hard drive and a slow GPU will do very little good because it is limited by the stuff it has to interact with. My guess would be that in your case what you're seeing is the program being loaded into RAM.

The quality of the processor becomes apparent when it is the bottleneck. This doesn't happen in games that are bottlenecked by the GPU and when reading/writing a lot of data to hard drive and/or RAM (so a faster processor probably won't help you boot Windows that much faster). It does happen when you're doing processor dependent tasks like encoding/decoding, compiling, compression/decompression, etc. In my work (particle physics), there are some very CPU hungry programs...

 

I'm going to even go and say that mostly you won't notice a difference between 2 processors even if it's a speed bump. It really only shows once you start benching and recording but generally I bet if you use a computer with a 2.2 gig processor and a 2.6 you won't notice the difference. The Core2Duo are fast enough for anything out at the moment and when you are gaming you wont notice unless you are looking at your FPS. You need to be trying to notice the differences really.

 

No that circle is mostly because either of your ram or hard drive....I would spend the extra money in faster ram
(the solid state hard drives are WAYYYY too expensive in my opinion--although they are cool )

 

Ok , thanks all, actually I have another laptop with CPU C2D T9300 ,2 GB ram,and 256 mb nvidia GS 8400 with 1 GB intel turbo memory , it perform much faster than my M 1330 , it open any application so fast .

Anyway is it possible to upgrade my CPU ? at my own payment

 

Yes, it is possible. I upgraded the T5450 in my m1330 to a T8300 Penryn.