Caporegime
I'm just building up a machine out of some spare components (Abit IP35-PRO, 8GB Kingston Hyper-X PC8500, 2x Radeon HD3870's), and am unsure wether to use an E6600 or E5300 I have lying around.
The E6600 is one of the earliest batches, bought when they first came out, the E5300 is new, bought last week. Which one will be better? I know the E6600 has 4MB of cache compared to the E5300's 2MB, but I've got a feeling that the E5300 will clock harder, and most likely run cooler what with being a newer, more refined die (60nm vs 45nm IIRC).
Either way, both CPU's will be used, it's just one will end up being in this rig, and one in a shuttle.
Which way around would you do things?
The E6600 is one of the earliest batches, bought when they first came out, the E5300 is new, bought last week. Which one will be better? I know the E6600 has 4MB of cache compared to the E5300's 2MB, but I've got a feeling that the E5300 will clock harder, and most likely run cooler what with being a newer, more refined die (60nm vs 45nm IIRC).
Either way, both CPU's will be used, it's just one will end up being in this rig, and one in a shuttle.
Which way around would you do things?