Clock Speed vs Front Side Bus

[Kelemvor]

Howdy,

I'm trying to compare a couple laptops for my sister-in-law's family and have two that I'm not sure which would be faster in the real world.

1) C2D T5250 1.5Ghz/667Mhz
2) C2D T5270 1.4Ghz/800Mhz

For an average using doing Internet, Email typing documents, etc... Which of these would be a better pick? Or would they be close enough that the difference would be negligible?

Thanks.

 

[SerpentRoyal]

Core speed is KING but you'll never know the difference with those applications.

 

[magreen]

FSB speed hardly affects performance at all. AT has tested it again and again (800->1066 FSB, 1066->1333, 1333->1600), and it's always just about negligible.

 

[Thund3rb1rd]

Originally posted by: magreen
FSB speed hardly affects performance at all. AT has tested it again and again (800->1066 FSB, 1066->1333, 1333->1600), and it's always just about negligible.

 

[hans007]

Originally posted by: Kelemvor
Howdy,

I'm trying to compare a couple laptops for my sister-in-law's family and have two that I'm not sure which would be faster in the real world.

1) C2D T5250 1.5Ghz/667Mhz
2) C2D T5270 1.4Ghz/800Mhz

For an average using doing Internet, Email typing documents, etc... Which of these would be a better pick? Or would they be close enough that the difference would be negligible?

Thanks.

if they are between 2 different laptops i'd get the 800 bus one.

that way you knwo you ahve a sonoma chip.


if its the same laptop with different configurations (like say a dell) then jus tget the faster cpu since you'll have the sonoma chipset no matter what.

 

[taltamir]

I would go with #2

 

[TC91]

their perfromance should be extremely close, within about 5% difference. get the laptop that costs less.