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pentium m 780 or pentium m 770?

post #1 of 10
11/23/06 at 5:52am
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should i shell out an extra $80 dollars for a pentium m 780 versus a 770?

will i be able to notice a difference in performance?

current specs:
alienware area-51 m5500
celeron m 370 1.5 ghz
intel 915gm chipset
nvidia geforce go 6600

i appreciate all answers from the gurus
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post #2 of 10
11/23/06 at 8:56am
no i dont think its worth it unless you are going to be doing alot of cpu intense work which i dont think is the case.
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post #3 of 10
11/23/06 at 8:32pm
Well the laptop has a 1.5GHz celeron in it now. Popping a 770 or 780 PM in there would give you better power stepping for longer batery life and a faster FSB & more L2 cache, which will help boost performance. Aside form all of this, you can expect the 2.13 & 2.26 GHZ of those CPU's to be at least 25% faster than a 1.5GHz when the cpu is working (proabaly in the 30-35% range) based on clockcycles alone.

$80 for the upgrade, I say go for it.
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post #4 of 10
11/26/06 at 1:32pm
Meh, for $80, go for it.
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post #5 of 10
11/26/06 at 5:41pm
you guys would waste 80bux to upgrade from 2.13ghz to 2.26ghz lol
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post #6 of 10
11/26/06 at 5:45pm
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Originally Posted by aintz
you guys would waste 80bux to upgrade from 2.13ghz to 2.26ghz lol
No. But to upgrade from a celeron 1.5 to either a PM 2.13 or 2.26, for $80 I'd do it without a second thought.
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post #7 of 10
11/27/06 at 2:49am
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Originally Posted by g00nter
No. But to upgrade from a celeron 1.5 to either a PM 2.13 or 2.26, for $80 I'd do it without a second thought.

i wish it was just $80 bucks!i wasn't sure if it was wise to spend the extra money on a .13 ghz difference... i went ahead and got the 2.23 ghz, i'll let you guys know how the install goes...

i appreciate all the responses!
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post #8 of 10
11/27/06 at 3:05am
Before you can say good deal(80.00 for a pentium m780 is great!) you may want to do alittle research if it will work in your notebook. Looking at your siganture you have a 1.5 celeron cpu but it not a centrino which is a m730 - m780 series plus it run on a different front side bus and pin configure. Celeron cpus' are intel form of basic chips with lesser features and onboard cache. They are go chips but centrino was a redesign of the moblie cpu to work better with wireless network, better battery management and run cooler than their P4 cousins(But run better and faster from the benchmarks). I not sure but you can't use a centrino in a celeron base system. I say check it out before dropping the money for it but 80.00 for a 2.26 is a steal. If it does you will get a increase but not a big boost in performance.
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post #9 of 10
11/27/06 at 2:25pm
you should learn how to read goonter. instead of just posting crap
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should i shell out an extra $80 dollars for a pentium m 780 versus a 770?
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post #10 of 10
11/30/06 at 7:05pm
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hey all, i got my cpu in the mail today! i installed it with out a hitch and put some arctic silver 5 on the cpu, bridges, gpu and vram. i booted it up and intel's processor id utility registers the cpu as an intel pentium m 780 running at 2.37 ghz, with fsb running at 559 mhz! i have 'high performance mode' enabled in bios. thanks to all for your help and advice!
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