CPU speed

[Chris S]

I've got a Lenovo G50-30 with a 2.16GHz CPU.
There is a Lenovo G50-80 with a 1.7GHz CPU on ebay.
In both cases this information has come from the BIOS screen.
The G50-80 is a higher spec machine so why has it got a slower processor?

 

[cisamcgu]

I think the Lenovo G50-30 has a Celeron processor, which is inherently less powerful than the i3 Pentium in the G50-80. Although the speed is less, the power is more - if that makes sense ?

 

[Chris S]

Yes - that would explain it. The G50-30 has a Pentium N3540 processor which is ranked 1276th out of 1475 in terms of speed. The G50-80's Core i3 processor is ranked 1193rd.
https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Pentium-N3540-vs-Intel-Core-i3-6006U/m15842vsm214467

 

[Drago]

What I know about pooters could be written on a postage stamp with lump hammer, but I can say one of my laptops is i3 equipped (I only know his because of the sticker on it) and it absolutely flies.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

it absolutely flies.

It's got wings as well has it @Drago?

 

[Drago]

It's very thin so I skim it like a Frisbee.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I think the Lenovo G50-30 has a Celeron processor, which is inherently less powerful than the i3 Pentium in the G50-80. Although the speed is less, the power is more - if that makes sense ?

In cycling terms the full i3 version has a more efficient drive train than the Celeron
it is like the Celeron if operating with a chain that has sticky links

sort of

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I've got a Lenovo G50-30 with a 2.16GHz CPU.
There is a Lenovo G50-80 with a 1.7GHz CPU on ebay.
In both cases this information has come from the BIOS screen.
The G50-80 is a higher spec machine so why has it got a slower processor?

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That’s just the clock cycle speed, the latter can do more per cycle. But unless the CPUs are throttled it doesn’t really matter.

 

[lazybloke]

The G50-80 won't run Windows 11 !!

 

[Chris S]

The G50-80 won't run Windows 11 !!

That's OK - I switched to Linux when Windows 10 came out. There should be lots of cheap G50-80 machines on the market in October.

 

[FrankCrank]

Not wishing to teach granny how to suck eggs, but biggest bang for the bucks is an SSD upgrade on an older machine.
Without - like driving a car with the handbrake permanently on.
Going with the bird analogy, having an SSD, it'll be faster than a peregrine falcon with its pants on fire

 

[Dogtrousers]

If the computer was a horse think of the clock speed as the oats and the processor type as the number of legs it has.

Using a computer is very much like making love to a beautiful woman.

 

[ColinJ]

Using a computer is very much like making love to a beautiful woman.

You were Fast to come up with that observation...

Yes, very much so. You stride up to her, confident in your power, turn her on, issue commands, and hope for a great result! And hope. And hope. And then you discover a bug in your software and suffer an unplanned reboot!

 

[ColinJ]

I had better not put it up here (unplanned pun!) but I just found a clip of Swiss Toni discovering the Internet!

I thought that I had watched all episodes of The Fast Show but maybe I missed a few?

 

[fossyant]

An i3 is equivalent to Tiagra. Celeron like the BSO shimano stuff.

i5 like 105
i7 more Ultegra/Dura Ace
i9 Dura Ace Di2