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Quickie question on P4 CPU's

Which one will be the best performing option?

  • P4 3Ghz with 1MB 800fsb

    Votes: 5 55.6%

  • P4 3.2Ghz with 512K 800fsb

    Votes: 4 44.4%
  • Total voters
    9
  • Poll closed .
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Background - I am fitting out another rig with parts laying around. It will be running XP pro and used mostly for editing very large graphics (500+ MB) in Photoshop. System will have 2GB patriot PC3200 in dual channel mode, dual 400GB 7200 RPM 16MB cache seagate drives.

My question is which of these two processors will give better performance? I do not care about heat as I have a good HSF and have no plans on overclocking this system in any way. The two processors are both socket 478 HT P4's. One is 3.2Ghz with 512k cache while the other is 3.0Ghz but with 1MB cache. I guess I'm trying to figure out if the extra cache on the slower cpu would be better then the measly 200mhz gain with the faster cpu but less cache. Which will ultimatley be the best performer given my options?
 
Northwood FTW. It's faster clock-for-clock than the Prescott, and even better is that it's the higher clocked of the two options you listed.
 
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