Laptop processor help

umjammerlammy · (This post was last modified: 01-10-2010, 01:43 AM by umjammerlammy.)

Intel Core i7-720QM 1.6 (2.8)
T9600 2.8ghz

Which is best for dolphin and pcsx2?

Kipston · 01-10-2010, 02:00 AM #2

i7 I think.

**nosound97** · 01-10-2010, 02:07 AM #3

If it will 2.8Ghz both, then I'll take i7

umjammerlammy · 01-10-2010, 02:11 AM #4

Yeah but i don't get it
Does the i7 only run at 2.8 when 1 core is being used.

Skilgannon · (This post was last modified: 01-10-2010, 04:37 AM by Skilgannon.)

With this new architecture, you can no longer look at clock speeds.

The best way would be to get someone who has a laptop with i7 running dolphin to testify here.

Here:
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html

You can see that with 2 cores the 720qm performs around 2.66Ghz.
(although you also need to look at cache and bandwidth, yabda yabda)

Also, look for reviews/benchmarks of the processor at bit-tech.net (http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/laptops/2009/11/13/intel-core-i7-mobile-720qm-benchmarked/2 ) and notebookjournal.de where they run several comparison tests between that processor and other quad-cores.