T6500 vs T9300

[kknd2]

I have a gateway nv58 laptop with t6500 c2d cpu. I found out that the best I can have as an upgrade is the t9500. but it's too pricey on ebay so i picked the t9300.

I want to know if it would give me a noticeable difference if i make the upgrade from t6500 to t9300, and if there is a huge difference between t9300 and t9500 (i think its a probable "no" lol).

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[geofelt]

I think no significant difference in a cpu upgrade.
T6200 passmark = 1308
T9300 passmark = 1690
T9500 passmark = 1838.
What WILL make a difference is changing your slow hard drive to a SSD.
I have done this on all my laptops with very good results.
Samsung has a nice ssd migration tool to copy your drive to one of their ssd drives.

 

[kknd2]

I think no significant difference in a cpu upgrade.
T6200 passmark = 1308
T9300 passmark = 1690
T9500 passmark = 1838.
What WILL make a difference is changing your slow hard drive to a SSD.
I have done this on all my laptops with very good results.
Samsung has a nice ssd migration tool to copy your drive to one of their ssd drives.

t9300 does have 3 times the l2 cache than t6500 (6vs2mb) on top of the higher clock though. Is it really not enough to see any difference?

 

[geofelt]

The specs, like cache and clock rate are taken into account by passmark benchmarks.
The slowest part of a laptop is the hard drive. 5400rpm drives are s.l.o.w.
If you are running cpu bound apps, then the T9500 might be a good idea.
For everyday web browsing and such the ssd makes all the difference in the world.
I updated a thinkpad R61 with a T7500 cpu(passmark 1280) with a ssd and it became a very useful web browser.
Witnout the ssd, it took overnight to do a lot of windows updates.

 

[kknd2]

The specs, like cache and clock rate are taken into account by passmark benchmarks.
The slowest part of a laptop is the hard drive. 5400rpm drives are s.l.o.w.
If you are running cpu bound apps, then the T9500 might be a good idea.
For everyday web browsing and such the ssd makes all the difference in the world.
I updated a thinkpad R61 with a T7500 cpu(passmark 1280) with a ssd and it became a very useful web browser.
Witnout the ssd, it took overnight to do a lot of windows updates.

I do technically have a ssd for this laptop. except i'm using it in another pc atm lol. its a 180gb intel one. I'll put it in once i get a new ssd for the other pc

 

[geofelt]

Both Intel and Samsung have ssd migration tools to copy your current drive to a ssd.
Samsung EVO and Intel 732 would be my picks.

 

[kknd2]

Both Intel and Samsung have ssd migration tools to copy your current drive to a ssd.
Samsung EVO and Intel 732 would be my picks.

ya i've done disk duplication with my old m11x so i'm no stranger. i'm still waiting for a good 500 or 1tb ssd to drop price 😛

 

[Wisecracker]

...What WILL make a difference is changing your slow hard drive to a SSD.

Ding!

What will be holding you back more so than anything is the graphics. Sandisk (I believe on the 'Ultra-II' SSD models) has a neat data migration tool, too.

 

[geofelt]

That thinkpad R61 I updated was able to view youtube ok.
It all depends on what one wants to do with a laptop.