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Processors and speed

  • 08-04-2007 10:54am
    #1
    Fabio
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    Is there a big difference between the speed of a 1.60ghz processor and a 1.80ghz processor?

    I am still looking at laptops to buy and Dell always try and up-sell you to a better product at a higehr price and was wondering is there a need to get that slightly faster processor.

    Both are Dual-Core Intel's by the way.


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  • #2
    Tom Dunne
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    Fabio wrote:
    Is there a big difference between the speed of a 1.60ghz processor and a 1.80ghz processor?

    I am still looking at laptops to buy and Dell always try and up-sell you to a better product at a higehr price and was wondering is there a need to get that slightly faster processor
    In day to day tasks such as word processing and internet, you will not notice any difference.

    It's really a price vs. performance thing - are you willing to pay the extra 50-100 Euro (or whatever it is) for a perceived marginal increase in performance? Personally, I wouldn't, but there are people out there who need the extra horsepower. Number-crunching, CAD, games are the type of applications that may benefit from the extra speed.

    There's also the factor of other components around the processor - bus, cache memory, etc., they may be different on the 1.8 Ghz processor, futher increasing the performance advantage.


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