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Planning a budget Intel build

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I did so many builds with the E6750 and now the Egg no longer seems to carry it. I used the Wolfdale core in a couple of builds and tho higher processor speed they were always slower overall because of what I perceived as L2 cache deficiencies. What's everyone's opinions on them now? What's on the horizon in the next 2-3 months?

I'd love a quad core but I also need to rebuild my maw-in-law's pc so my wife and I can both be online at the same time so all I can get for mine is mobo, RAM and cpu. I need PSU, optical drive, OS and monitor for hers and my budget's only going to be ~$500. :cry: My new mobo doesn't need video and I'd love to bump my 19" monitor to her and get a 23" for me :-k (greedy...)

Any and all ideas, suggestions, opinions, etc. are most welcome :mrgreen:

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Jack
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Re: Planning a budget Intel build

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I have a few rigs with those CPU's so maybe this will help. Both rigs are running nearly identical components with 2Gb DDR2800 ram, windows XP.

Running 3DMark06 here are the CPU scores:

e6750 2.66Ghz, 1333 FSB, 4M Shared L2 Cache - 2413
e7400 2.8Ghz, 1066 FSB, 3M L2 Cache - 2601

Running Super-Pi:

e6750 - 19.031 [1M] digits of Pi
e7400 - 18.234 [1M] digits of Pi

It's not exactly an "apples to apples" comparison, but you get the point.

If there are other tests you would like me to run, just ask.

For budget: E7400 $120, P43 or P45 board $100, 4GB DDR2800 $25. Good performance at a budget price.

For her: Corsair vx450w $70, Samsung DVD Burner $25, Acer 22 LCD $150 - All that is around your budget I believe.
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Re: Planning a budget Intel build

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Thanks for the numbers. Thinking back, the Wolfdales we were using did have much lower L2 cache, the 7400 (I believe) has 6 MB. Where was the 4 GB RAM for $25?

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Newegg had the 4GB Corsair Ram for $25 after MIR. It's now $30 after MIR, but still good. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820145184

or - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820220227

or - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820227267

And it's the E8400 that has 6M L2 Cache. Even the e6850 only has 4M shared.

The L2 Cache doesn't impact performance as much as you think, and the Wolfdale is a big improvement over the Conroe, at least IMO.
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