2.4 vs. 2.6 Core2Duo

[HURST]

Hi all...
I wonder if the difference between a 2.4GHz, 800MHz 3MB L2; and a 2.6 GHz, 800MHz 6MB L2 is noticeable enough to make it worth. Both are C2D.

[WSFuser]

The difference would probably only be noticable in benchmarks.

Also you can just overclock the slower processor to make up for the difference.

[aigle]

6 MB L2 will not make difference?

[Coolio10]

Intel is already coming out with 6MB L2?????

Is L1 cache useless or something cause i notice AMD puts more into their L1.

[Defenestration]

-{ Quote: "6 MB L2 will not make difference?" }-It will for an application like ZIP/WinRAR/7-Zip (at least that's what the benchmarks show), but for most other apps you probably won't see much of a difference. Video and Audio compression encoding is more dependent on clock speed.

[lucas1985]

-{ Quote: "Is L1 cache useless or something cause i notice AMD puts more into their L1." }-
They have different design goals.
The only "fair" comparation between AMD's cache and Intel's cache is in the amount of L2 cache. As a general rule, AMD needs less L2 cache thanks to the integrated memory controller.

[markymoo]

the smaller the cache the better the overclock, less stress. thats why 6400 overclock better than 6600.