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2mb vs. 4mb cache

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Glow

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Alright well I'm thinking in the long run I'm just going to upgrade to a quadcore chip anyways and I'm just going to OC the crap out of whatever I can now. So I dont exactly want to spend an assload of money. But with these price cuts coming up the 2mb chips are going to be much cheaper. I'de imagine anyways. How much of a performance gap do you see between them and the 4mb chips?
 
you need to research and read more. If you dont want to spend a hole lot of moeny wait for price drops. there are new cores coming out that are 4mb. E6320 and e6420. both 4mb chips. and they are going to be around $200 and less that.

Please do some reading. and its better to get the 4mb over the 2mb
 
Well aware of these chips thanks.
p.s. If I'm looking at 2mb chips and theres 4s coming out do you think I still want to pay just under $180? When I can get a 4300 for $149 at the moment.
 
Maximum of 10% benefit between 2mb and 4mb... Probably closer to 5%... Sorry I have no links.

Is it worth it? That's up to you...
 
Really? double the cache I would have figured more substantial than that
 
Glow said:
Really? double the cache I would have figured more substantial than that
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Not as much as we'd like. I don't know if it's actually about 5 percent, but software written today just doesn't take advantage of cache too well.

I'm assuming that everyone knows what cache does...?
 
gwai lo said:
I'm assuming that everyone knows what cache does...?
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Pfft, well yeah of course. I know what it does...but...maybe other people, not me, don't... So you should explain it to me, well them, well its like I'll tell them after you tell me because, you might be busy at some point, and your explanation was better...
 
Cache is better for office related products, not so much for gaming. It looks good on paper and DOES offer an advantage but it isn't as much as some may think.
 
Hurshai said:
Pfft, well yeah of course. I know what it does...but...maybe other people, not me, don't... So you should explain it to me, well them, well its like I'll tell them after you tell me because, you might be busy at some point, and your explanation was better...
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rotflmao....well done hurshai, well done. :D
 
Since I only upgrade every 3-4 years, I'll probably go for 4 mb of cache. It may not be worthwhile now, but I'm sure it'll be somewhat useful in the not too distant future. Now the questions is E6600 or E6420?
 
michaLcoughliN said:
if you only upgrade every 3 or 4 years. E6600
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It's hard to say until more people get ahold of the 6420. The 6420 looks to overclock well and if it hits around the same speeds as the E6600 then there wouldn't be much point in spending more on the E6600.
 
I got my E6600 since it was the cheapest option that still had 4 megs of L2 cache.

Was it worth it? I'd say so, real-world performance is improved... and while it's only like 5% or so, every little bit counts.
 
IT's SOOO hard not to upgrade every year... I just like looking at all the shiney new parts.
 
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