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I recently acquired an XPS 420 equipped with Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 processor. Some people pretend that I've done a mistake by not ordering the other processor (Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600) which was about the same price.
What do you think ?
Davet50
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Posted October 12th, 2008 13:00
Depends on what you want to do with the system. There really is not much differnce in performance between the two processors. Core 2 will handle anything out there and as there is not much written to take advantage of the 4 cores.
The quads will give you slight advantage in things like video editing as they can use all four cores.
I do not think you made a mistake. Remember the 420 is not designed to be a gaming machine it is a multimedia system and as such a core 2 will perform a well and perhaps a slightly bit better than a quad.