Tech advice (again)

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  1. Zad

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    Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E6750 processor (2.66GHz, 1333MHz, 4MB cache)

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    Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E6850 processor (3.00GHz, 1333MHz, 4MB cache)





    For the sake of £100 is there that much different to the performance?

    Just need to know if it's realistically worth it, from someone in the know. Cheers.
     
  2. Farnham_Red

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    Depends what you use your PC for

    If its home use gaming email web surfing etc I'd keep the £100 in my pocket

    If you are running applications with lots of calculations, simulations etc it might be worth the extra but I doubt it
     
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    You would not physically see any difference between the two. for £100 its not worth it, did one last week for someone who did the same thing, exact same difference in chip size, and he asked if i was sure it was the right one i had installed. Spend the Extra on memory, either higher FSB or just MORE, that would make the difference, but no more than 3 gig unless your using a 64 bit copy of windows
     
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    KEEP THE £100
     
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    In Fact

    If your system takes it use the difference to get a Quad core, now there you WILL see a difference, not in day to day use but give a quad core chip some REAL work to do and it will fly. Even a smaller sized chip. i dropped from a 2.6 duo to a 2.4 quad and its like sticking an overdrive on. Converts a 780 meg DivX into DVD in 23 minutes now. closer to 50 with the duo.
     

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