2.8 Northwood or 3.0 Prescott for every day use.

[theredguy]

Hi

I have the choice between these 2 chips for my every day rig. Now i have no plans to overclock this rig thats what my opteron is for as i want it to remain stable, the machine will be used for browsing, downloading, encoding, gaming, watching dvd's, playing music etc etc.

In theory the 3.0 should be better due to it running 200MHz faster and having twice as much cache but in reality is this my best option and please remember that i won't be overclocking this one and regardless of which chip goes in i will be getting a good heatsink for it.

Cheers



Oh both chips are 800fsb and HT enabled.

 

[theredguy]

Thanks hank but heat won't be the issue i'm just trying to find out if the prescott will be better as it's faster and has twice the cache.

 

[theredguy]

So what everyone is saying is that the extra cache won't make any difference go for the cooler one.

 

[theredguy]

Right i guess the Northwood is it,

Cheers guys.