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Re: Thoughts? E8600 or Q9550 CPU
07/20/13 03:52 PM
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> Motherboard will support either...looking to bump the performance of newer games so > your thoughts on the performance of the E8600 Core 2 at 3.3Ghz vice the Q9550 quad at > 2.83Ghz for running Mame..especially the likes of California Speed, Off Road or > CarnEvil. Thanks. > > Steve
The E8600 is going to have a slight edge in single threaded applications and a huge edge in power efficiency. Multi-threaded ops and pretty much everything else goes to the Q9550.
The E8600 would probably be the slightly better choice for a MAME rig IMO, but I'd go with the Q9550.
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