E6600 or E6400 for $100 diff. in price? What do you think!!!

jindeyu

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I can't decide between E6600 or E6400, for $100 diff. will E6600 really give a notable speed increase over E6400? (I know E6600 has 4M Cach, will that really help a lot?)

I just want to use my money wisely. which will give us the best cost/performance?
 

Chop-Chop

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anandtech has an article on 2M vs 4M cache. Overall average for all bechmarks is a paltry 3% max is 10% dor DivX encoding. That article recommends 2M for near future but 4M if this will be your system for severla years (I guess future-proofing you)

My first post. I have been lurking for a while but I decided to come out of the closet.

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