Following on from my recent investigations, I realised that there was in fact a 3.33 GHz Dual Core CPU, the E8600. I checked the benchmarking details of this item against the E8500 (winner according to the previous post), and found that it gave an average of 40% improvement over my current CPU compared to the 35% for the E8500. So am I going for the E8600? Probably not!
I added some cost data to my little spreadsheet, and came to the following conclusions for cost per % of improvement:
E8500 - £4.54
E8600 - £5.25
Q9550- £10.05
i7-920 - £16.15
So at £220 rather than £164 (CCL Computers today's date) it is not a cost effective option, and the extra 5% would equate to a 4 second saving on a 1’40 task!!
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