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Just when I thought I had my mind made up, I found this:

http://www.pricewatch.com/cpu/992709-1.htm

It's only a single socket, but at 2.8GH with 1MB of L2 cache, it would outperform the 4400, except in the multitasking aspect. However, the price given by StarMicro is so much cheaper than even Newegg, I was suspicious of the vender and read the reviews. Even though the Pricewatch rating of the company's positive results is 73%, some of the complaints sounded pretty bad. I also thought it was odd that this company was the only one that I saw, who responded to these. Their responses may have been vallid, but they could just as well have been covering their tracks.

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: Seekermeister
Interesting numbers. Most of them were fairly straight forward, but I still don't quite understand exactly how they derived the relative price column. Unfortunately, the one processor that I'm interested in, is the one increasing most. At the current rate, it won't be long before the 4800 is as cheap as the 4400.

my guess its just price based on relative increase in performance over some base processor. the price if processors were realy priced for actual bang per buck instead of supply/demand desirability etc. so i guess a price performance number u can compare to the real cost and see how far off they are from each other to judge value. i think it should be on more charts. gives a real idea of value

 

[Seekermeister]

Yes, it gave the base processor at the bottom of the table (Pentium 4 520), and I think that you are right about the intent of the values. But, I still don't quite understand how to use those values.

 

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Can't anyone give me any information about the processor or the vender mentioned 3 posts above?

 

[lamere]

Originally posted by: Makaveli
Yes dual core currently does nothing for games. As for the cache i've seen anywhere from 5-10% on some games.

The extra cache usually makes up for 1 speed grade

Example.

Opteron 146 which runs at 2.0ghz and has a 1mb cache. will usually equal the performance of a 3500+ running at 2.2ghz with 512k cache.

This example is for games only tho, other applications it varies.

I also believe encoding gets a slight increase from extra cache aswell.

Oblivion, quake4, and GRAW are a few that take advantage as well as upcoming games like alan wake that will be able to utilize all 4 cores on the upcoming quad cores.
Alot of the games that are being made will use multiple cores.
We'll say the majority of upcoming games from now on will use them.