The new E2140/E2160 chips

[Jonny L]

What do you think about these guys, not really a gamers chip but they look a nice budget option for desktop use.

 

[Jonny L]

Cool, it seems a good choice, I think that and mainstream general desktop use will be the main work of these chips.

 

[Jonny L]

I'm not slagging it off, I just think that people buying chips in this sort of price range will want a long lasting computer and for the games coming out in the next few months a chip with only 1mb L2 cache may struggle a bit. I know that I haven't got the money to go buying cpus that won't last.

 

[Jonny L]

Don't worry, I understand that, sorry if what I wrote suggested otherwise, I was just interested to hear if there was some factor about the chip that you knew about that I didn't.



Does the cache actually have that much of a bearing on gaming though. It does for encoding tasks, but from what I've seen benched gaming wise it looks like an awesome bang for buck chip...

lol don't worry it didn't, its just that many games benefit from the cpu having a larger cache and I think that a 1mb cache will not be enough for most of the big hitting games coming out in the next few months.

 

[Jonny L]

i read its a -5% hit, which is nothing if it clocks to 3.5.

Yer but thats -5% in current games, in the games coming out in the next few months it will be a larger performance drop.