Ok so I am in the market for a new CPU and the rest.
I have a choice between a few products ~ AUD $
$239 - Intel Core2 Duo E8400 ~ 3.0GHz ' FSB 1333MHz ' 6MB Cache
$249 - Intel Core2 Duo E8500 ~ 3.16GHz ' FSB 1333MHz ' 6MB Cache
$339 - Intel Core2 Duo E8600 ~ 3.33GHz ' FSB 1333MHz ' 6MB Cache
$255 - Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 ~ 2.4GHz ' FSB 1066MHz ' 2x4MB Cache
$289 - Intel Core2 Quad Q8200 ~ 2.33GHz ' FSB 1333MHz ' 4MB Cache
$355 - Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 ~ 2.66GHz ' FSB 1333MHz ' 6MB Cache
$439 - Intel Core2 Quad Q9550 ~ 2.83GHz ' FSB 1333MHz ' 12MB Cache
I was wondering if the Duo E8500 was worth it over the E8600?
Like the only difference you can actually see in the specs is a .17 GHz clock speed. Is that extra worth another $100 or are there other things that make the E8600 better?
I was also thinking about what would be better, the Duo E8600 or the Quad Q9400? How much better is a quad simply because it has 4 cores?
Also I was wondering about the (possibly called bit depth) the amount of information sent per clock cycle. How can you tell this in the specs or is it
Core2 duo = 4 per cycle and Core2 quad = 8 per cycle?
Thank you for reading this and I hope someone will have some suggestions or helpful info
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