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Throw me a CPU model!

Ivee

Ivee

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I am using Celeron/Atom CPUs atm and figured a needed a higher performing CPU. I don't want the CPU to be too modern because I don't want the CPU to end up with an integrated government GPS trigger. I thought of the i7 but it is too new, how good is the performance on the i5? I have used a core2due and performance is poor. My current CPU is around 1-2GHz and I can't remember the clock frequency on the core2duo.
 
Cache: 4.0 MB
Clock Frequency: 3.00 GHz
Threads / Cores: 2 / 4
Oooooh SEXY!

Now one last question, has anyone used this CPU and what was your experience with it?
 
RJC said:
Thats a mobile processor so you need to find a motherboard to take the cpu other than a laptop - unless your after one?
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Yep however later in the future when I leave this country a base unit is my plan for right now just mobile.
 
cmndr_andi said:
Hi there,

May I ask what you would be using the PC for and do you have a budget in mind?

Also, do you have any parts you will want to re-use?


As for Intel's anti-theft tech, I believe that only affects Intel CPUs with vPro - so none of the K series i5 or i7 chips are affected by that.
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No everything is old so I'll be looking for a mainboard that can accept my choice of CPU. I wont be scraping/selling the old hardware tho, it will be being repurposed.
 
cmndr_andi said:
Yea, slow response - was finding out what the heck this GPS thing was - turns out its actually a thing, but only affects the more business focuses intel chips.



Well it's a decent chip, but no powerhouse.

Since it sounds like you want a laptop do you have an overall budget for the laptop?
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No, I'll just do a comparison at the end.
 
cmndr_andi said:
Well right now one of the more popular high-end laptop CPUs is the i7-4700HQ (don't worry, this doesn't have vPro either :)).

This is a quad core CPU with hyperthreading (so 8 threads) and is clocked at 2.4GHz but can Turbo boost up to 3.4GHz. Also, since it uses the Haswell microarchticture it has around a 5% instructions per clock advantage over an Ivy Bridge based CPU (and a massive IPC jump compared to a Core 2). Prices for laptops using this CPU seem to start at around £1000 (though there may be some cheaper ones if you look around).
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oh dear
 
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