Not great no, the boost is great for single core programs... programs that only use a single core, dual core progs will take the speed of the slower core though 1.80 regardless
boosting also will make the laptop more prone to over heating, while like my laptop, that is not a games machine either is on 24/7 and does not over heat, though does get very warm at times anyway so that's not good either and I don't boost anything, it does auto reset from time to time or I manually do if it hasn't done it in a while (usually just auto updates) so it does get a a clean boot every now and then as it is not a good idea to have any machine on 24/7
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?...0U+%40+1.80GHz should be of interest
An example of a comparison with both CPU's
That Dell is just not good, not for games anyway and not for Sims3 or GTA
But the IntelHD graphics chip set is the biggest let down as IntelHD is not good and is not AMD, ATI or Nvidia
If you get 2 machines with the exact same stats except for graphics one with Intel graphics and one with Nvidia graphics the Nvidia one will see a huge difference for games
AMD laptops with ATI graphics will also see a huge performance boost over Intel CPU equivalents with Intel graphics chip sets
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