Hi guys, I have an XPS M1330 that I use hooked up to an infrared scanner in my office. I like it for its small footprint and really thin size - at least for its day it was...
Well, it was feeling real slow, so I doubled the RAM to 4GB (went from 2 to 4GB of DDR2 800 SODIMMs). Then I swapped out the old, 5400 rpm notebook drive for a nice Corsair SSD. It really is "feeling" quite a bit faster now.
The GPU is unfortunately stuck at a Nvidia GeForce 8400M GS w/ 128MB, so I can't do anything there. Although, that is a lot better than being stuck with Intel graphics like a lot of other lappys! ugh...
My question now is on the CPU. Currently an Intel Core 2 Duo T7500. 2.2GHz, 4MB L2 cache...other specs here.
The fastest CPU this Santa Rosa chipset seems to support is the Core 2 Duo T9500. 2.6GHz, 6MB L2 cache, other specs here. Only real difference besides 400MHz increase in speed and 2MB more cache is the T9500 supports SSE 4.1 and the current CPU only supports SSE 3.
Does anyone think I would actually notice a difference in the processor or not really? I know some CPU architectures, that increase in L2 Cache would make a huge difference just by itself - but I have no idea if that applies to the Core 2 Duo family or not?
Thanks for any pointers!