With this stampede to upgrade from "older" core 2 duo chips to the new ones I can't help feeling that Intel might just have conned us a bit, I mean are they THAT good to justify replacing an e6300 with say an e6420??
Any benchmarks that I have seen do not really seem to justify it in my eyes, sure you might get double the amount of cache but in day to day computing is that going to make much if any of a difference.
I would be interested in anbody upgrading from old core 2 duo to the new chips on whether they feel the upgrade has been justified or whether in hindsight they would have been better sticking with what they had.
It just seems to me that the urge to have "bragging rights" and the most up to date rigs might not be all it is cracked up to be with these new chips.
Any benchmarks that I have seen do not really seem to justify it in my eyes, sure you might get double the amount of cache but in day to day computing is that going to make much if any of a difference.
I would be interested in anbody upgrading from old core 2 duo to the new chips on whether they feel the upgrade has been justified or whether in hindsight they would have been better sticking with what they had.
It just seems to me that the urge to have "bragging rights" and the most up to date rigs might not be all it is cracked up to be with these new chips.
