Where to draw the line?

**philthomas** · #11 13th May 2008, 06:42

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Originally Posted by Mike0001

How annoying that the 9300 wasn't included in the tests!

Yes ..... I was thinking exactly the same thing .... however, in the summing up, he did say the 9300 was still an excellent choice .... or words to that effect.

**Mike0001** · #12 13th May 2008, 07:10

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Originally Posted by philthomas

Yes ..... I was thinking exactly the same thing .... however, in the summing up, he did say the 9300 was still an excellent choice .... or words to that effect.

And the only choice if you wanted something now!

**thingie2** · #13 13th May 2008, 09:43

why the only choice if I wanted soemthing now?

**Mike0001** · #14 13th May 2008, 09:45

The review stated that at the time the other processor was unavailable everywhere!

If looking for a new Quad-Core right now, it's hard to outright recommend this one, because not one e-tailer I checked at press time had them in stock. The Q9300, on the other hand, is found all over the place.

**thingie2** · #15 13th May 2008, 10:15

oh, yea, but that was US I think, because I have seen several places stocking this proccesor.

**serverguy** · #16 13th May 2008, 14:08

TBH, I'd go with the Q9300 and save the extra cash.

You could overclock it up to Q9450 speeds easily anyway if you wanted to.

**thingie2** · #17 13th May 2008, 14:38

Well I don't rearly want to overclock, and I want this thing to last me as long as possible. But if I save now, it will be soolner before I can buy a second 8800GTX for SLI, or a larger monitor.

**Mike0001** · #18 14th May 2008, 02:12

True, and the performance gain doesn't seem significant anyway.

**thingie2** · #19 14th May 2008, 09:47

even if it's not significant, is it noticeable?

**alex** · #20 14th May 2008, 10:35

Well, yeah in benchmarking.

But in real worlds apps? No. Doubtful.

Even if it is, so you have to wait an extra 2 seconds to finish encoding a file. So what?