Core 2 Duo 5600 vs 7200

[Nash]

What kind of difference in performance am I looking at between a Core 2 Duo T5600 1.83ghz 2mb cache and a Core 2 Duo T7200 2.0ghz 4mb cache? I know cache is important but how much of an effect is doubling it to 4mb going to have? This is in a laptop by the way.

 

[Darg]

I'm confused. Do you mean the E6400 to E6600? 2MB Cache to 4MB Cache difference. I've never heard of the cpus that you mentioned.

EDIT: Oh sorry. Should have read the last bit. I assume the difference would be the same as for what I mentioned above. You won't notice much difference in games.

 

[Dureth]

At a pure guess I'd say about 10-20% in completely CPU bound tasks. However for a laptop I'd say just get the cheaper option as by the time it can't run something the slightly faster one wouldn't be able to run it either.

 

[GAMEfreak]

unless you intend to encode, don't bother, and frankly, ive never heard of someone encoding big files on a lappy, as well id expect it to catch fire