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VanDerGoes

09-06-2006, 11:20 AM

Hi, I'm building a new pc for my girlfriend but I can't decide about the cpu. I've read wonderfull things about the new intel chips, but I couldn't find any benchmark for the E6300. I know that the E6600 beats even the athlon fx62, but the E6300 has only 2 mb cache L2 and runs at 1.86 ghz (.54 ghz less than the E6600). Is it comparable to the athlon 64 X2 4200+?
Also, is intel's 64 bit technology as good as the amd's one?

Do you have any suggestion?

prixatw

09-06-2006, 03:38 PM

Here is a post I did a few days ago.
Its a sort of average of averages which probably makes less than accurate but it still serves as a rough guide.

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=396987

VanDerGoes

09-07-2006, 03:02 PM

Thank you!

And about the 64 bit support?
Can anyone tell which one is better (or if it's just the same?)?

lots

09-07-2006, 05:11 PM

Intel's EMT64 should be fully compatible with AMD64. EMT64 is pretty much following AMD's specs, minus a few things which make AMD's implimentation a bit better, these differences should not change compatibilty though.

Intel also has another 64bit architecture, named IA-64 (IA-32 is what you find in 32bit x86 CPUs). The Itanium uses this, and it is a very different animal from the x86-64 that AMD created. It is not compatible with any previous x86 code or hardware.

VanDerGoes

09-08-2006, 08:49 AM

Very clear explanation!

Thanks a lot!!

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