Need advice: e2180, e4500, or e6750?

[cab00se]

Hey all,

I'm having a hard time finding reliable benchmarks of these three processors OCed--in English, at any rate. =P

A lot of what I've read suggests that the L2 cache makes less of a difference at higher clock speeds, but what I'd really like to see are some gaming performance comparisons of the e2180 and e4500 in particular when OCed well above 3.0GHz. Does it exist?

 

[jcenters]

http://www.tomshardware.com/20...m_dual_core/page8.html

This is the best I can think of. Truthfully, I don't think it makes a huge difference.

 

[Comdrpopnfresh]

Depends on the uses. Video editing and such will see a larger boost from cache sizes. Probably about similar between 2140 and 4500 in terms of gaming. Maybe a few frames to the 4500. If you're worried about gaming I'd focus on graphics

 

[Denithor]

If you look a little further in that review you will find that the e2160 @ 3.2GHz is faster in most cases than the e6850 even in video encoding where cache is supposed to make about the largest difference.

Seriously, just get an e21x0 and push it north of 3GHz and spend the extra bucks on a better video card.

G92 8800GTS > 8800GT > 3870 > 3850

And don't really consider buying anything less than the 3850 (ie anything from previous generations at all, the 3850 beats the 7900GTX and x1950xtx like they're wusses) if you're a serious gamer.

Here are a couple more benchmarks for you to consider.
e4300 OC Gaming performance
1-2-4MB Cache scaling in UT3

The last one there shows the effect of different cache levels with chips clocked at 1.8GHz. I REALLY wish AT had repeated this with the three chips clocked at 3GHz and at a GPU bound resolution because I think the differences would be much smaller.

 

[cab00se]

The last one there shows the effect of different cache levels with chips clocked at 1.8GHz. I REALLY wish AT had repeated this with the three chips clocked at 3GHz and at a GPU bound resolution because I think the differences would be much smaller.

Me too. =/ That's precisely what I'm looking for actually, and it's kind of frustrating that such information doesn't appear to exist. I guess I'll just gamble with the 2180 and hope for the best. It's cheap, and I can always upgrade again down the road when the 45nms start to come down in price.