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    Acer 5920g will a T5800 upgrade over a work?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by drnilly007, Nov 30, 2009.

  1. drnilly007

    drnilly007 Notebook Enthusiast

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    The system is currently stock with a T5250 1.5ghz 667 FSB and was looking at the T5800 which is 2.0ghz and 800 FSB.

    I have seen that a T7700 is a pretty good upgrade cuz the 4mb cache over the 2mb and 2.4 over 2.0/1.5 but the price is whats calling me to the T5800 $60.00 compared to T7700 $135 plus

    Anyone have the optimal upgrades for my laptop? Performance wise and most cost effective???
    Anyone have any thoughts???
     
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  2. moral hazard

    moral hazard Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    T5800 is ok, it's good that it's a penryn.

    The T7700 will run hot (since it's a merom).

    I know my T8100 runs cooler than my T7300 even though the T7300 is undervolted and running a lower clock speed.

    I would forget about any merom CPU.

    T8300 would be better than a T7700.
     
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    drnilly007 Notebook Enthusiast

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    You really think a T8300 is better than a T7700 a T8300 has 3mb cache and the T7700 has 4mb?

    Does the cache really matter?
     
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    moral hazard Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Not much.

    What will matter is that the T7700 is a merom so will be really hot and your fan will be loud. The T8300 will be really cool and give almost the same performence (you wont notice the difference).
     
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    Ahh I see does that have to do with the mfg tech( not really sure what this is) 45nm that the T8300 has compared to the T7700 at 65nm?
     
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    moral hazard Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Yes, that is it exactly :)
     
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    get a high speed penryn with a good price.

    performance difference between my ex-T7250 and my current T7700 with wPrime is 9-10 seconds.
    The T7700 does hotter, but with undervolt, it's not a problem.

    unfortunately I haven't got a chance to get a cheap penryn, so I'll leave it for future upgrade(s) :p
    ( I got very nice bargains on T7250 and T7700)
     
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    Also the T7700 has an analog thermal sensor while the T8300 has a digital one, but there is no real difference except some old software wont be able to tell you the CPU temp (like CPUcool).
     
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    Get a T9300.. its an awesome CPU for this old platform and its cheap... its 2.53GHz and 800MHz FSB and 6 MB L2 cache...
     
    sean473, Nov 30, 2009
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