E8400 or E7600, No OC! Which is good & why?

[Aneesh@4GHz]

hi guys,


Which one is good,Core 2 duo e8400 or Core 2 Duo e7600.E7600has high clock but lower cache only 3mb ,e8400has 6mb of cache and 1333fsb.Which one is good and is there any use for high amount of cache?

Thanks!

 

[Thadius856]

It's $23. I could easily spend that much buying soda at the convenience store 20 oz. at a time... in a week. I'm sure you'd be able to fit it into your budget.

Get the E8400. If you ever decide to O/C, it's a beast. I was able to fiddle it past 4.0 ghz with stock cooling (stable) and past 4.2 ghz easily with a decent cooler.

 

[andy5174]

E8400 is significantly better in games and cache intensive apps due to its much larger L2 cache! I would get E8400 if the price difference between the two CPUs is small.

 

[Stardude82]

You know you can probably get a Q9300 for about the price of a E8400 if you looked at the right places. For certain things, like video editing, it is certainly a better bet, unless you Mobo doesn't support it.

 

[andy5174]

Q8400 cost $5 more than E8400 at newegg.

Q9550 sold at Mircrocenter costs about the same as E8400/Q8400 sold at newegg.