Decent gaming CPU

[Johnny Drama 5,000+ posts]

Well, I ended up saving a ton of cash and went with a prebuilt laptop. The only reason being I love my current laptop and this was just an upgrade for under $600

Toshiba P105-S9312

Intel Core Duo Processor T2500E 2.0ghz

1024 MB RAM

120 GB Hard Drive 4200RPM

Nvidia GeForce Go 7900gs graphics card with 256 MB of dedicated RAM

Software Included: Windows XP Professional Edition, SP2

Adobe CS2 which includes: Adobe Designer 7.0, Adobe GoLive CS2, Illustrator CS2, Image Ready CS2, InDesign CS2, Photoshop CS2, and Acrobat 7 Professional

Microsoft Office 2002 which includes: Excel, Access, Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint

Now the processor may be a core duo and not a core 2 duo...but when you compare the 1.66 I have now and the 2.0 that one has its still faster and works better with overclocking.

The hard drive will be replaced with a 7200rpm 100 Gb seagate drive.

The ram is cheap, so Ill just put 2gb or so in there.

 

[Jmac 10+ year member]

Pretty decent

2 GHz Core Duo = 1.7 GHz Core 2 Duo

 

[Johnny Drama 5,000+ posts]

Pretty decent
2 GHz Core Duo = 1.7 GHz Core 2 Duo

http://www.hwbot.org/hardware.compare.do?type=cpu&id=671_1&id=833_1&id=1391_1

Been using this site as well for info... http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=125803

 

[miker 5,000+ posts]

Didn't read the thread.. But looked at some of your prodects...

First.. Different PSU..

second.. different graphics card.. If you are going 8series get the 8800 otherwise get like a 7900GT

 

[Chevyaudio 5,000+ posts]

tsk tsk...bought a laptop. I may be coming in to DFW this weekend. Doug bought all of my wire. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[Johnny Drama 5,000+ posts]

tsk tsk...bought a laptop. I may be coming in to DFW this weekend. Doug bought all of my wire. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

Ill be here and I dont think I have to work. I wanted to keep my laptop and basically a $2000 laptop for $600 I couldnt complain.

And it will run any game I play //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[Chevyaudio 5,000+ posts]

f@cking space cowboys...lol

so where did you find this laptop?

 

[Johnny Drama 5,000+ posts]

f@cking space cowboys...lol
so where did you find this laptop?

That game shut down last month //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

Im playing BF2 and source mostly...

Egay my good man Egayz

 

[Jmac 10+ year member]

http://www.hwbot.org/hardware.compare.do?type=cpu&id=671_1&id=833_1&id=1391_1
Been using this site as well for info... http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=125803

The newer Core 2 Duos are faster than the old ones (i.e. T5300) and, I find they're about 10-15% faster clock-for-clock than the Core Duos ...

 

[Johnny Drama 5,000+ posts]

The newer Core 2 Duos are faster than the old ones (i.e. T5300) and, I find they're about 10-15% faster clock-for-clock than the Core Duos ...

Cool, cool thanks for the info. Youre talking about the Santa Rosa Chipsets correct? I believe they are T7xxx?

I was looking at those...

 

[Jmac 10+ year member]

Cool, cool thanks for the info. Youre talking about the Santa Rosa Chipsets correct? I believe they are T7xxx?
I was looking at those...

The T5300 has a slower FSB, slower L1/L2 cache performance, and poorer performance w/ various instruction sets (i.e. SSE) than the newer Core 2 Duos of similar clock speeds, plus most newer laptops have the Santa Rosa chipsets, which have features to increase peformance more.