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    Real diff b/w T2500 and T2400

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by hbanana07, Mar 22, 2006.

  1. hbanana07

    hbanana07 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hey could someone tell me in pretty basic terms what kinda performance difference I would get by upgrading the T2400 (2MB Cache/1.83GHz/667MHz FSB) to the T2500 (2MB Cache/2GHz/667MHz FSB).
    The most gaming I do is Sims 2 but I'll be multitasking a lot. Its gotta be $200 more for a reason right lol

    -hb
     
    hbanana07, Mar 22, 2006
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  2. Shampoo

    Shampoo Notebook Deity

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    200 more!?!?!?

    Don't do it, you won't notice a huge performance increase, unless these new duo cores are so different that a little jump in clock speed will give huge performance gains.

    Forget it hbanana07.

    1.83ghz Duo Core is PLENTY powerful.

    Cheers,
    Mike
     
    Shampoo, Mar 22, 2006
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  3. hbanana07

    hbanana07 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks!
    I didn't think it'd be a big difference but I don't really understand all the benchmarking stats people post.
    You know how it is when you're buying shiny new notebooks lol everything is so tempting!
    Whoohoo that'll bring my notebook down to $1500!

    -hb
     
    hbanana07, Mar 22, 2006
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  4. matt_h1

    matt_h1 Notebook Deity NBR Reviewer

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    In may the processor prices are dropping by a fair bitm if you can order the bare minimum now and upgrade later.
     
    matt_h1, Mar 22, 2006
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    qwester Notebook Virtuoso

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    If you can wait a bit the price of the 2.0Ghz will be equal to the price of the 1.8Ghz today. That should happen sometime in May.

    But if you are set on buying now, I see no reason to go 2.0. Notebook CPUs run most of the time at the lowest speed setting, and only bump up under heavy usage. So you won't really feel the difference for the usual daily use. The only reason to go 2.0 is if you do heavy number crunching operations for prolonged times then at least you get some boost for the extra $
     
    qwester, Mar 22, 2006
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  6. tianx

    tianx Notebook Geek

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    Gleep... 200 more... *faint* Well.. personally, whenever I get any part (proc, board, vid, whatnot) I tend to look at the price ranges of the same lines... once the price difference between 2 items goes above $100 then im sticking with the lower one.

    In your case...

    T2400 -> Next Step -> T2500 is more than $200... you wont notice it :p trust me, you'd get better performance if you spent the 200 bucks on ram or getting a better system with a better gpu (or a faster hdd)
     
    tianx, Mar 22, 2006
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  7. StopGo

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    The Dell $750 coupon code kind of changes things. I priced out several configurations and found that by cranking up all of the specs to push the pre-coupon price to over $2000 and utilizing the $750 coupon, you will spend a little more money than you might have with lesser specs but will get some significant upgrades relatively inexpensively (in my case: faster CPU, extra battery, 7200rpm HDD--the cost of these items is $475 but by using the bigger coupon, they'll end up costing me less than $200 more than w/o them).

    So while I ended up spending the extra $200 to bump up the CPU which might not be noticeable in daily use, it allowed me to use a larger coupon which saved money in the end. If anyone's interested, the coupon code is still active at the moment.

    Here's what I ordered:

    Base Price: $949
    Upgrades: $1061
    Total: $2010
    -$750 coupon code M$0BPCBGXQH6TR
    - $35 coupon code from ebay http://search.ebay.com/dell-home-35-300
    Total: $1225 + free shipping + tax
     
    StopGo, Mar 22, 2006
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