T5450 Vs T7300

I'm getting a laptop for school, but I'm torn. I can't decide if I should pay the extra $200 (Canadian) for the T7300 over the T5450. I won't be using it a lot for gaming, mainly Photoshop, word processing, and some compiling.

Does anyone have benchmarks, or anything showing the difference in battery life and stuff like that?

Thanks a lot!

 

I would get it if it was less than $100. The performance is only about 10%-15% better

I would spend that $200 on some ram or save it.

 

Regarding battery life, you shouldn't think of something being faster, as being worse for battery life.

For example if you get work done faster as a result of a new processor, then this means your battery life has been used more efficiently.

If though we have a older processor, stuff is processed slower, you may run out of battery before finishing a task, such as video encoding as an example, even though it uses less power per sec, than the faster processor.

Thus if you run processor intensive software, then it may be worth the upgrade. I have no idea about the costs, or whether it is WORTH getting a T7300 over a T5450, unless the performance different is large, otherwise don't bother.

 

Your needs, $200 not worth it.

 

I am looking to do some fairly serious gaming, and have an available option with the 5450. Can anyone tell me what kind of performance I could expect from that, in old and new games?

 

Need to know GPU more than CPU.

 

Oop, sorry. I've been looking all afternoon for various units and specs and I have a bad rutting headache.[/excess info]

256MB 8600 M GS
2GB RAM

It's an HP 9000, I think. 9500, maybe?

I'm not looking for ultra quality on Crysis, ffs, but just minimal performance on some upcoming titles.

 

the main difference between the T5450 and T7300 is the FSB (front side bus) is 667Mhz and 800 respectively. The cache is also different, 2MB on the T5450 and 4MB on the T7300

Basically the FSB is how the processor gets its instruction, and the cache is where it gets them from.

In terms of real world benefit, little performance gain is seen from 2MB to 4MB.

For $200 I would stick with the T5450, for $50 I would move up, but it probably isn't worth $200. The T5450 also uses the same power saving tech as the T7300 ( according to intel.com ), so doesn't seem like there is a big difference.

I would search around for temperature differences between the 2, but generally power consumption is what causes temp gain so you may end up making a circle.