- Mar 22, 2008
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Quick specs:
Q9000 - 2Ghz Quad core, 6mb cache, 1066FSB
P8700 - 2.53Ghz Dual core, 3mb cache, 1066FSB - Overclockable to 2.89Ghz in my laptop
Looking to upgrade my P8700 to a Q9000 here pretty soon...not that the P8700 is slow per se, but I can see the limitations of the dual core in some games like Crysis, The Saboteur, and Metro 2033.
My first concern is heat. Will there be issues at all with heat? The P8700 never breaks 65C overclocked (2.9ghz) when running OCCT Linpack test...so I doubt the Q9000 will be MUCH hotter...what are the thermal limits on these things?
Also, looking at Notebookcheck.com the GTX260m scores seem universally slower with the Q9000 compared to the likes of the T9400-T9550, both of which are clocked lower than my P8700 (which is overclocked to 2.9ghz, this obviously being faster despite lower cache).
How accurate are these scores? On the same page, games like Modern Warfare are like 10fps FASTER on a T9400 (2.5ghz, 6mb chache) than they are on the system running the 1.6ghz quad i7!
Its just that Im real close on pulling the trigger on a Q9000 and would just like to know if Im doing a good thing or not. Im fairly confident itll be overclockable as the Asus has its overclocking utility and the P8700 is rock solid at 2.9ghz.
It would seem that in todays games a quad would be better, even if the clock speed per core is slower than a dual core...it would seem that more and more games use quad cores...and those that dont should be "older" enough to play fine on 2 cores in the Q9000...my opinion of course.
Even if I cant overclock, 8ghz quad seems just better than the 5.8ghz on the overclocked P8700...I dont know...anyone have some ideas or opinions?
Q9000 - 2Ghz Quad core, 6mb cache, 1066FSB
P8700 - 2.53Ghz Dual core, 3mb cache, 1066FSB - Overclockable to 2.89Ghz in my laptop
Looking to upgrade my P8700 to a Q9000 here pretty soon...not that the P8700 is slow per se, but I can see the limitations of the dual core in some games like Crysis, The Saboteur, and Metro 2033.
My first concern is heat. Will there be issues at all with heat? The P8700 never breaks 65C overclocked (2.9ghz) when running OCCT Linpack test...so I doubt the Q9000 will be MUCH hotter...what are the thermal limits on these things?
Also, looking at Notebookcheck.com the GTX260m scores seem universally slower with the Q9000 compared to the likes of the T9400-T9550, both of which are clocked lower than my P8700 (which is overclocked to 2.9ghz, this obviously being faster despite lower cache).
How accurate are these scores? On the same page, games like Modern Warfare are like 10fps FASTER on a T9400 (2.5ghz, 6mb chache) than they are on the system running the 1.6ghz quad i7!
Its just that Im real close on pulling the trigger on a Q9000 and would just like to know if Im doing a good thing or not. Im fairly confident itll be overclockable as the Asus has its overclocking utility and the P8700 is rock solid at 2.9ghz.
It would seem that in todays games a quad would be better, even if the clock speed per core is slower than a dual core...it would seem that more and more games use quad cores...and those that dont should be "older" enough to play fine on 2 cores in the Q9000...my opinion of course.
Even if I cant overclock, 8ghz quad seems just better than the 5.8ghz on the overclocked P8700...I dont know...anyone have some ideas or opinions?
that the Q9000 will be overclockable...at least to 2.4ghz seems the norm...
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