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Well, for my new build for gaming and other stuff, I am getting a quad core proccesor, however I am unsure as to where to draw the line. I was going to go for a Q9450 (2.66Ghz) for around £240, but it is a fair bit more than it's smaller ...
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12th May 2008, 14:05
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Where to draw the line?
Well, for my new build for gaming and other stuff, I am getting a quad core proccesor, however I am unsure as to where to draw the line. I was going to go for a Q9450 (2.66Ghz) for around £240, but it is a fair bit more than it's smaller brother the Q9300 (2.5Ghz) at around £180. So what I want to know, is the extra £60 worth it for the extra 0.16Ghz increase in clock speed? or is there something else about the proccesors I am missing?
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12th May 2008, 14:15
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Doubt it! Would you notice?
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12th May 2008, 14:17
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i don't know, but also after looking into ti more, it looks like the 9450 has 12MB cache, but the 3000 only has 6MB, does this make a big difference in performance?
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12th May 2008, 14:59
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Yes, the cache would make a difference, don't know how much. Ah just picked up PCPro and it has test results! lol Performance indicators are 1.53 and 1.63, is it worth £60?
Hang on, prices quoted at £161 for Q9300 and £186 for Q9450! (Exc VAT)
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12th May 2008, 15:14
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hmm, well the prices I quoted were including VAT, where were those prices quoted from? or was it just intel's rrp?
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12th May 2008, 15:19
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Well I have searched online and can't find any prices near those, and PCPro don't say where they got their "typical" prices from!
http://www.pcwb.com/catalogue/item/A0401745 http://www.microdirect.co.uk/product...?s=13&se=q9450 http://uk.insight.com/apps/productpr...t_id=ITOA05Q00 http://www.microwarehouse.co.uk/catalogue/item/A0401745
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12th May 2008, 16:00
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well I got the prices from www.dabs.com they are sometimes more expensive though, but I find the site easy to use and easy to find what you want so I usualy use that to find the products.
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13th May 2008, 04:06
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Where to draw the line?
Cheapest I could find here
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13th May 2008, 05:10
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