Core 2 Duo (2.2 & 2.4)

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

Is there a performance difference between the 2.2GHz Core 2 Duo and the 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo? Enough to warrant a large price gap?

 

[zach0624]

Assuming that you are talking about the e4500 vs. the e6600, don't get the e6600. the e6x50s are phasing out most e6x00 chips and the e6x00 are now the same price of their higher priced counterparts. With that said the difference between the e4x00 series and e6x50 series is that the e6x50 series has 4mb of cache and a 1333mhz(333mhz)fsb which requires a faster ram to get optimal performance(667mhz ddr2 to run at 1:1) while the e4x00 series has 2mb of cache and a 800mhz(200mhz)fsb which doesn't require as fast of ram(only ddr2 400 to run at 1:1). The e4x00 series is better for bang-for-your-buck overclocking and people on a budget while the e6x50 series is better if you want the bleeding edge overclocking or a faster stock cpu.

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

Sorry I wasn't clear about this earlier, but I was talking about Santa Rosa processors.

 

[zach0624]

The $100 price increase between the 2ghz and 2.2ghz is not warranted although I was unable to find a 2.4ghz to compare to the 2.2ghz.

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

So you're saying the .2GHz in the Santa Rosa processor don't really do anything performance wise, unless the price difference was <$100?

 

[sgrinavi]

Depends on what you are doing with it.. Personally I would probably go with the 1.2v version of the 2.2..

Once again, it depends on what you are doing with it, but there are probably more cost-effective solutions out there...


PS, that is not a core 2 duo, it's an opty

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

What do you mean opty?

 

[sgrinavi]

Originally posted by: ChAoTiCpInOy
What do you mean opty?

Hi, An opty is slang for a Opteron chip manufactured by AMD. In this case your Santa Rosa chips are dual core, socket F.

The core 2 duo series are specific Intel products

What are you doing with it?

 

[Silversierra]

Here's a bench that includes the 2.4 and 2.2 Santa Rosa cpus, from the macbook pro.
http://www.barefeats.com/rosa02.html

Not that big of a difference IMO.

 

[zach0624]

Nevermind my price post I didn't read my google results right and thought that the procs where mobile intels(thouht it sounded weird because for intel it is memrom) Looking at the prices for the individual procs the 2.4ghz is about $40 more than the 2.2ghz which is 20% more for 9% more clockspeed so it is not a very good deal unless you need the extra clockspeed.

 

[hans007]

laptops are really held back by well... laptop components like slower hard drives slower ram, buses etc.

honestly its probably not worth the money to buy higher end laptop chips (unless you are getting some sort of "gaming" laptop which is more or less an oxymoron).

the 2.4 vs 2.2 should not be that big a gap in price same deal with the 1.8