P4 - 1 mb cache or 2mb?

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Steve Dambrowski

I am building a new system and I'm not sure which chip
to get. I can either get a P4 3.4 gig w/ 2MB cache *OR*
a P4 3.6 gig w/ 1MB cache.


Would it be better to get the faster chip w/ less cache or
the one with more cache but slower chip?!?

The MB is the Asus P5AD2-Premium.



Thanks!!


STEve
 
Steve said:
I am building a new system and I'm not sure which chip
to get. I can either get a P4 3.4 gig w/ 2MB cache *OR*
a P4 3.6 gig w/ 1MB cache.


Would it be better to get the faster chip w/ less cache or
the one with more cache but slower chip?!?

The MB is the Asus P5AD2-Premium.



Thanks!!


STEve
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Personally, I'd go for the extra cache. I'm fairly certain you'll see
better performance from that chip.

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Steve Dambrowski said:
I am building a new system and I'm not sure which chip
to get. I can either get a P4 3.4 gig w/ 2MB cache *OR*
a P4 3.6 gig w/ 1MB cache.


Would it be better to get the faster chip w/ less cache or
the one with more cache but slower chip?!?

The MB is the Asus P5AD2-Premium.



Thanks!!


STEve
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Get the 3.4GHz chip it has the extended 64 bit instructions so will run XP
PRO64.





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The L2 cache is a huge performance booster.

For example...the difference between celeron and Pentium(basically same
difference between athlon and duron) is just that...on-chip cache...and we
all know which one is a much better performer :)
 
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