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    2.4 vs 2.6?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by GaMeRxD, Feb 15, 2008.

  1. GaMeRxD

    GaMeRxD Notebook Evangelist

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    is there a huge jump between 2.6ghz and 2.4ghz
    (T7700 vs T7800)
     
    GaMeRxD, Feb 15, 2008
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    Iceman0124 More news from nowhere

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    In a word no, for the general average user, there would be very little to no noticeable real world perfromance gains.
     
    Iceman0124, Feb 15, 2008
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    Because of the bus speed, I would tend to say that the T7700 has an advantage on memory-based applications. The difference is very minimal though
     
    JCMS, Feb 16, 2008
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    I thought they both ran bus speeds of 800mhz? The only difference i'm aware of is the 200mhz speed bin increase, other than that bus/cache/process/etc are the same as far as I've read.
     
    Iceman0124, Feb 16, 2008
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  5. GaMeRxD

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    so i guess the difference is veryvery slim?
     
    GaMeRxD, Feb 16, 2008
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    The T7800 is in theory (clocks) 8% faster. In real world since CPU is not always utilized will see less. Many apps don't even push either one so there is no difference.
     
    powerpack, Feb 16, 2008
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    Both have the same bus speed. 800 MHz. In fact, they're entirely the same except for clock speed of course.

    I'd say the difference in performance does not provide enough merit for the difference in price between the two.
     
    scythie, Feb 16, 2008
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    not that worth to spend the money
     
    haquocdung, Feb 16, 2008
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