I am looking at new pcs and finally settled on the dinopc website seeing as it has the cheapest prices. But while I am looking at getting a mid-range pc, there is one element I haven't decided on. While if both pcs are kitted out the same, apart from the motherboards/processors, the intel e8200 pc is £40 more than the AMD 6400+. Tomshardware seems to show that the e8200 outperforms the 6400+, but it has a lower ghz, is the performance related to the bigger cache then? Does anyone have any advice on which pc I should get? Cheers Massec
It is no longer the case that GHz refers to what speed you will see. I built a machine with a 6400 in and yes, it's nice and fast. But if benchmarks show an Intel processor is faster, then there is no doubt it is faster. L2 Cache (and I think L3) improve the speed, and also AMD dual core processors don't use 2 full processors, whereas Intel ones do (I think!!).
Yup. The CPU's clockspeed is largely irrelevant as they're about doing more work per clock cycle. While a larger cache helps, it's not going to provide massive leaps in performance.
