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CPU comparison chart needed.

Kimmy

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CPU comparison chart needed.

Can any one direct me to a comparison chart where you can compare 2 CPUs side by side. I’ve done a Google search but found nothing.

Cheers
 
I’m trying to compare the CPU I have now and the CPU I’m going to buy. I’m trying to justify spending money on a new CPU.

If there’s not much difference between them, I won’t bother spending the money.

I think everyone who has/is going to upgrade their CPU, needs to compare what they have with what they’re going to have.

Thanks for the link. It was very helpful.

Cheers.
 
The answer is strongly dependent on which cpus you have in mind, and what you use the computer for.

Feel free to check your reasoning againt the forum consensus when you're done. Im happy to see that you're educating yourself rather than blindly trusting the forums.
 
I’m actually trying to justify buying a i7 950 (now that they have dropped in price) to replace my aging E6700.

There are so many benchmarking programs available, it’s difficult to know where to start. Obviously, the i7 is faster than the E6700, I just wanted to see it on paper.

Money wise, I paid £233 for the E6700 almost four years ago. The i7 is now roughly the same price.

I think it would be a good upgrade. What do you guys think?
 
I think it depends on what you use the computer for, and how you feel about noise and electricity bills. You may be better off getting a ssd.
 
As others have said, it depends what you use the computer for. I upgraded to an i7 930 from an E6700 running at 3.4GHz and it made a massive difference when encoding video. Some games benefited (BF:BC2) but others not so much (as you'd expect).
 
another thing to think about thou, is the i7 motherboards arn't cheap, and use tripple channel DDR3, which also isn't cheap
 
No, not unless you really need to encode videos faster or you're desperate for extra CPU power for some other reason.
 
I gone ahead and bought the i7 950 (hope to have it Wednesday). At that price it would be mad to go for the i7 930. The comparison charts all put the i7 950 at about 4x the speed of my old e6700 (as mentioned by ishoeyi). I’ve also noticed that the difference between the two CPUs when benchmarked in games, isn’t so different. No where near four times the speed. I wonder why?

Thanks for all the input.

Cheers
 
Because games are graphics card limited.

The 950 is exactly as fast as the e6700 in tasks that are limited by other components.
 
Kimmy said:
I gone ahead and bought the i7 950 (hope to have it Wednesday). At that price it would be mad to go for the i7 930. The comparison charts all put the i7 950 at about 4x the speed of my old e6700 (as mentioned by ishoeyi). I’ve also noticed that the difference between the two CPUs when benchmarked in games, isn’t so different. No where near four times the speed. I wonder why?

Thanks for all the input.

Cheers
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good choice. if you sit there running benchmarks all day long then you'll definitely see the difference!
 
Kimmy said:
I gone ahead and bought the i7 950 (hope to have it Wednesday). At that price it would be mad to go for the i7 930. The comparison charts all put the i7 950 at about 4x the speed of my old e6700 (as mentioned by ishoeyi). I’ve also noticed that the difference between the two CPUs when benchmarked in games, isn’t so different. No where near four times the speed. I wonder why?

Thanks for all the input.

Cheers
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the reason theres not a lot of difference in games is because a lot of games dont require much in the way of CPU power, so the lower CPUS are good enough to run the game properly, so having more power doesn't make much difference.

there are a few games that are more CPU dependant thou, so if you try those games, u might notice more of a difference
 
One game in particular, ‘X3 - Terran Conflict’ (my favourite game) runs faster/better with a faster CPU. When I upgraded my GPU, it made hardly any difference at all. I was told that X3 is more dependent on CPU and not so much GPU.

That’s what I was told anyway. Is this correct?
 
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