New PC?

[looqas]

One thing I don't personally like about Q9300 is that is has a castrated L2 cache size of 6MB. Whereas in it's bigger brother's Q9450 and Q9550 have double that 12MB. Even Q6600 beats it in this regard with 8MB L2 cache.

And if this L2 size talk is total Hebrew to you I'll put the good quote from Wiki here

A CPU cache is a cache used by the central processing unit of a computer to reduce the average time to access memory. The cache is a smaller, faster memory which stores copies of the data from the most frequently used main memory locations. As long as most memory accesses are to cached memory locations, the average latency of memory accesses will be closer to the cache latency than to the latency of main memory.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU_cache

And while this seems very overly dramatic it really has real world implications as well making bigger cached processors more powerful if they are running at the same clocks as the lower cached processors. You can google about reviews if you are interested to see the difference in applications.

But while this is certainly a plus it should not sway your decision to some way or another really. The main difference by far between processors are due to different clock frequencies.

Which ever core2 Intel you choose I guarantee you'll be grinning like an idiot the first time you put it to test and use:D

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