celeron m540 vs c2d T5670

T0fu · 11th May 2008, 5:43 PM

hello! <: looking forward to purchasing a my first laptop but i cant decide on what to buy,

im a student have a budget of abt 800 aud and am currently deciding between 2 differently specced 1310's from http://www1.ca.dell.com/content/prod...dt1&l=en&s=bsd
i realise they are canadian but i do have relatives with a permanent address there and some other relatives visiting canada within the month(may) so it will most likely be from there

whats bothering me is which cpu should i buy, because upgrading or getting something above a celeron seems to be quite expensive, however im not sure if its actually worth it

i will most likely be getting the 8400m gs with the laptop and a 9cell battery and i would like to know if the core2duo actually has any major performance benefits over the celeron when paired with a pretty dismal 8400m

the games i am most likely to be playing on this laptop are counterstrike source, team fortress 2 and quake3 possibly starcraft 2 when that arrives
when its not used for gaming it will prolly be used for pretty easy tasks such as word processing , spreadsheets and web browsing, and playing back movies i wont be doing any photoshop or moviemaking on the lappy.

so is the c2d worth it over the celeron ? or will tehre be little difference becauuse of the graphics card bottleneck

_the_duke_ · 11th May 2008, 6:15 PM

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Originally Posted by T0fu

so is the c2d worth it over the celeron?

Definitely.

Deanodriver · 11th May 2008, 6:21 PM

As an owner of a Celeron M 540, I'd agree with _the_duke_, particularly if it's running Windows Vista

T0fu · 11th May 2008, 8:28 PM

so celeron is terrible for playing HD, or just having msword and firefox+youtube open ??

cos i have an e6300 (1.8ghz same as c2d and celeron) desktop and it only uses 1 core most of the time,

but yeah if teh celeron cant cop HD playback then thats definately a no no

natman · 12th May 2008, 11:03 AM

A lot of people bag the celeron without anything to back it up.
The main disadvantage is the lack of speedstep. Performance wise it would be similar to the c2d unless you do a lot of stuff that utilizes dual cores.

Deanodriver · 12th May 2008, 12:29 PM

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Originally Posted by natman

A lot of people bag the celeron without anything to back it up.
The main disadvantage is the lack of speedstep. Performance wise it would be similar to the c2d unless you do a lot of stuff that utilizes dual cores.

Which in a laptop, is a fairly big oversight. I only get about 2-2.5 hours battery life from this Celeron laptop.

I'd guess the performance would be on par with a single core A64, but I haven't benchmarked it against anything to confirm that.

It does struggle a bit with Windows Vista unless you turn some features off (desktop compositing mainly), even with 2.5GB of RAM.

T0fu · 12th May 2008, 2:15 PM

as mentioned in OP it will have a 9cell with it , is there a way i can just clock it in windows to run slower? or do i have to do it through bios?

11th May 2008, 5:43 PM	#1
T0fu Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: SYDNEY Posts: 1,099	celeron m540 vs c2d T5670 hello! <: looking forward to purchasing a my first laptop but i cant decide on what to buy, im a student have a budget of abt 800 aud and am currently deciding between 2 differently specced 1310's from http://www1.ca.dell.com/content/prod...dt1&l=en&s=bsd i realise they are canadian but i do have relatives with a permanent address there and some other relatives visiting canada within the month(may) so it will most likely be from there whats bothering me is which cpu should i buy, because upgrading or getting something above a celeron seems to be quite expensive, however im not sure if its actually worth it i will most likely be getting the 8400m gs with the laptop and a 9cell battery and i would like to know if the core2duo actually has any major performance benefits over the celeron when paired with a pretty dismal 8400m the games i am most likely to be playing on this laptop are counterstrike source, team fortress 2 and quake3 possibly starcraft 2 when that arrives when its not used for gaming it will prolly be used for pretty easy tasks such as word processing , spreadsheets and web browsing, and playing back movies i wont be doing any photoshop or moviemaking on the lappy. so is the c2d worth it over the celeron ? or will tehre be little difference becauuse of the graphics card bottleneck __________________ i5 i750 \| 2 x 2gb DDR3 1600 \| 1tb WD Caviar Black \| HD3850 256 \| black ugly rusting shitbox of a case\| P55UD3 vanilla \| 500w Zalman RS \| Filco Zero Tenkeyless

11th May 2008, 6:21 PM	#3
Deanodriver Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Melbourne Posts: 6,953	As an owner of a Celeron M 540, I'd agree with _the_duke_, particularly if it's running Windows Vista __________________ sifnt.net.au \| I brew, therefore I am.

11th May 2008, 8:28 PM	#4
T0fu Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: SYDNEY Posts: 1,099	so celeron is terrible for playing HD, or just having msword and firefox+youtube open ?? cos i have an e6300 (1.8ghz same as c2d and celeron) desktop and it only uses 1 core most of the time, but yeah if teh celeron cant cop HD playback then thats definately a no no __________________ i5 i750 \| 2 x 2gb DDR3 1600 \| 1tb WD Caviar Black \| HD3850 256 \| black ugly rusting shitbox of a case\| P55UD3 vanilla \| 500w Zalman RS \| Filco Zero Tenkeyless Last edited by T0fu; 11th May 2008 at 11:49 PM.

12th May 2008, 2:15 PM	#7
T0fu Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: SYDNEY Posts: 1,099	as mentioned in OP it will have a 9cell with it , is there a way i can just clock it in windows to run slower? or do i have to do it through bios? __________________ i5 i750 \| 2 x 2gb DDR3 1600 \| 1tb WD Caviar Black \| HD3850 256 \| black ugly rusting shitbox of a case\| P55UD3 vanilla \| 500w Zalman RS \| Filco Zero Tenkeyless

12th May 2008, 11:03 AM	#5
natman Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 71	A lot of people bag the celeron without anything to back it up. The main disadvantage is the lack of speedstep. Performance wise it would be similar to the c2d unless you do a lot of stuff that utilizes dual cores.