Intel penryn CPU

Bry · 2 Apr 2008 at 16:35

Hi, im thinking of buying a new laptop soon and want to get one with the new penryn CPU. But, I am not sure how to tell if the cpu im buying is a penryn?

I have tried searching for model numbers and stuff but haven't come across anything.
For example is a Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T7250 (2.00 GHz, 800 MHz FSB, 2 MB L2-cache) one? how would i tell?

Captain Kirk · 2 Apr 2008 at 16:41

I believe the Penryn's are all labelled T8xxx.
T7250 would therefore not be a penryn

Bry · 2 Apr 2008 at 16:47

ah nice thank you, anyway I can double check that?

Captain Kirk · 2 Apr 2008 at 17:00

Don't you believe me?? I just typed in T7250 into Google, and the first result was for an intel website. I then clicked on"processor spec finder home" and under "Browse by processor family" chose mobile core 2 duos.

The 45nm ones are penryn

Bry · 2 Apr 2008 at 17:50

No i do, just u said believe so didnt sound too sure. But thank you very much

Metalface Mark · 2 Apr 2008 at 20:53

If you go for a 2.1 then its definetly a penryn, as they didnt do a C2D version.

They are also all 3mb i believe.

Emlyn_Dewar · 3 Apr 2008 at 12:34

There's the 6mb L2 T9--- series? Give them a look aswell.

Bengaboy · 3 Apr 2008 at 12:56

Anyone got one of these in their laptop? Is there a big performance increase over say the t7500 or t7250?

fish99 · 3 Apr 2008 at 13:36

Bengaboy said:
Anyone got one of these in their laptop? Is there a big performance increase over say the t7500 or t7250?

A 6m cache T9 or do you mean just a Penryn?

danceMB · 4 Apr 2008 at 12:15

Will let you know this over the course of the weekend, as I before had a Dell XPS M1530 with a T7250, returned it due to a rubbish screen, and have now re-ordered but this time they had a T9300 Penrym available, so I placed that order straight away, and has just arrived this morning!

Bengaboy · 4 Apr 2008 at 21:43

fish99 said:
A 6m cache T9 or do you mean just a Penryn?

Bit of both my friend

fish99 · 4 Apr 2008 at 23:01

Well I've got the T8300 (2.4 GHz, 3 MB cache) penryn in my Vostro 1500 and it's a damn fine processor. SuperPI 1M time is 20s running on one core, which compares very well with my desktop E6750 (2.66 GHz, 4 MB cache) time of 19s. Plus there's heat and power consumption advantages from having a penryn.

danceMB · 6 Apr 2008 at 17:37

I dont suppose that I will see much of a difference until Vista is running for a few weeks as it supposedly gets faster the longer you use it.

I wont be able to tell much of a difference to when I had my T7250 model, as I refrained from installing much on it when I made the conscious decision to return it, so didnt get a chance to play any games on it, which is where I would be seeing a benefit from the higher CPU.