T7300 vs. T7500

[Cordizzle]

Hi there, I am looking at purchasing a dell vostro laptop and am wondering how much of a performance difference I would see with a T7300 vs a T7500. It will have 2 gb of ram and the a 5200 rpm hard drive. Probably the most CPU intensive stuff it will be doing will be converting RAW photo files and maybe a little bit of gaming here and there. Would it be better to just save the money and get the T7300 or will there be a noticeable difference?

[thideras]

Hi there, I am looking at purchasing a dell vostro laptop and am wondering how much of a performance difference I would see with a T7300 vs a T7500. It will have 2 gb of ram and the a 5200 rpm hard drive. Probably the most CPU intensive stuff it will be doing will be converting RAW photo files and maybe a little bit of gaming here and there. Would it be better to just save the money and get the T7300 or will there be a noticeable difference?:welcome: to the forums!!

Well, for you to notice a difference, what are you going to be using the laptop for? If it is general use (internet, writing papers) then no, you won't notice the difference ;)

If you are running benchmarks that are CPU dependent, then yes, you would notice a difference.

EDIT: If you are converting files and gaming, it would help to have the faster processor, but I'd say it isn't worth it ;)

[e6600]

you wouldnt notice any difference at all

[Cordizzle]

Thanks for the quick answers guys! I suppose later on down the road, if I really want it I could upgrade it myself, to an even faster chip than the T7500, albeit voiding the warranty correct?

[e6600]

i dont think you can open anything in the laptop, or add anything without voiding the waranty

[BenF]

If you open up the comp and add the faster cpu in yourself you will be voiding your warrenty. I don't think it is really worth it though...the difference in speed will be relatively unnoticable. You will be able to convert photos faster but the difference will be small imo...with gaming I'd think you'd be bottlenecked more by the gpu than the cpu. What gpu is in your laptop?

[Cordizzle]

It has an 8600M GT so not the greatest GPU but not too shabby either, but I won't be doing any hardcore gaming on it, maybe some bf2142 but that is probably the most intense, more than likely it will mainly be CS:S.

[4od]

The 8600m GT is one of the best mobile GPUs right now, or at least the best directx10 one (not counting the legendary Quadro FX 3500) so I'm not sure if the video card would be the bottleneck in this case. But the difference between the t7300 and t7500 really isn't very large at all. If the upgrade is cheap (sub 50$) i would probably go for it, but otherwise it doesn't seem worth it.

[ps2cho]

Go for the T7300. By the time you want to upgrade to a faster processor, they will be pretty cheap to buy. Unless you are converting video's under a strict time period, it's not worth the extra, what $100 ?

Go for the T7300

And the Inspiron in my sig runs Bioshock 1440x900 wiht High settings relatively smoothly. Runs it very smooth at 1024x768. It's a great little laptop GPU.

[realtadiquantu]

If you are willing to advance the cash for a T7500, I'd use that cash to upgrade your hard drive through the dell site to a 7200RPM, or get the cheapest hard drive and buy a better one through newegg.com.

Btw, I talked with Dell and I was able to upgrade my CPU w/o voiding the warranty, I also upgraded the HD too.... and RAM...

[Dapper Dan]

dude.... go with the 5400 rpm hardrive... i went with the 7200 and a t7500 .... the 7200 rpm is loud as hell.... i'm getting 2x 5400 200 gig drives and it
ll still be quieter that the 7200

[4od]

The noise/heat/power difference is very minor between 5400 and 7200 RPM mobile hard drives. The performance increase will be nice, especially on booting up and the "snappiness" of your computer.

Honestly, i would go with the 7200RPM drive over the t7500 in a second. I actually did, although the 7200 RPM drive was only 30$ and the t7500 was more than 100$

[Spion]

And the Inspiron in my sig runs Bioshock 1440x900 wiht High settings relatively smoothly. Runs it very smooth at 1024x768. It's a great little laptop GPU.

is that with DX10 effects on or off? because mine chugs when i have everything on high @ 1680x1050 with DX10 :p

other than that the 8600M gt will work great for BF2142 and the majority of games out there.

[PhysX]

how about some 8700gts in sli haha 1gb mmmm :)

[e6600]

how about some 8700gts in sli haha 1gb mmmm :)
2hour battery life
i wish dell had GDDR3 mem with the 8600GT :(