What are the differences when you compare a intel t2400 (1.83 Mhz,667 fsb) vs. a t2450 (2.0Mhz, 533 fsb)?

Question

I always used a lame analogy to a car engine's size paired with it's headers' size. Is this even a correct analogy to use?

I have a Dell 1705 w/ a t2400 and I just want to know what makes the t2450 different? It is a 2.0Mhz duo, but has a smaller front side bus speed ( 533Mhz).

Does one of these chips perform better at "number crunching", but suck at "game graphics"?...and vice versa.

Back to the dumb car analogies...

Will the t2450 beat me in the straightaways, but handle like s h i t in the turns? You get the idea...lol.

Lastly, does this pattern of traits/performance pretty much cover any two chips that have a difference of clock speed vs. bus speed? How much of the bus speed is really represented, or is reflected in the overall performance of the computer?

Thanks for your answers!!!

Answer 1

In my opinion both of these chips could be the same. You could overclock the t2400 just enough to make it match the t2450. I think the t2400 is a little better because of the extra fsb. Although the CPU is the engine of the machine I could take a older CPU and beef up the RAM so high that it would beat the current configuration of a CPU with less RAM. I am a big fan of the idea that you can suffer in CPU speed but if you have tons of RAM the machine will handle faster and be better responsive.

Answer 2

According to the spec sheets, the biggest difference is that the T2450 does not incorporate Virtualization Technology.

http://www.intel.com/products/processor_number/chart/coreduo.htm

http://www.intel.com/technology/platform-technology/virtualization/index.htm

Answer 3

the second one has wider front sid bus but lessor speed, and the first one has highe speed fsb but not that wide fsb.
If I were u I will buy the second one.