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So a friend of mine recently gave me a working s775 motherboard with AGP and DDR1 support. This is pretty well-timed, as I recently traded my AGP 6600GT for an All-in-Wonder 9700 Pro, and I'm opportunistically selling off my Pentium 4 2.8C and its motherboard to pay for a new CPU. Now this doesn't need to be terribly high-end (as the thread title would indicate), but I'd like for it to be clearly better than what I'm giving up at all things pertaining to multimedia (and hopefully for a little bit of gaming, too). The primary task of the system in the near future will be to record every single episode of Beavis and Butthead off of a bunch of old VHS tapes I have.
Normally I'd just jump at the faster chip, but my wedding and honeymoon are coming up and there are always bills to pay. Which of the two chips should I choose? Is double the amount and four times the associativity of L2 cache going to make a colossal difference for this? My local Micro Center's running a special on retail E1200s for $50, and it seems like every place online is selling the E2160s for about $70 even. What say you?
Normally I'd just jump at the faster chip, but my wedding and honeymoon are coming up and there are always bills to pay. Which of the two chips should I choose? Is double the amount and four times the associativity of L2 cache going to make a colossal difference for this? My local Micro Center's running a special on retail E1200s for $50, and it seems like every place online is selling the E2160s for about $70 even. What say you?