fxt107
05-19-2008, 01:39 PM
Both chips are equally priced. But I understand that there aren't that many multithreaded applications out there that can take advantage of more than 2 cores.
Second, is there a list somewhere of applications that take advantage of 4 cores.
Another question I had is regarding motherboards. Should I sweat the fact that some motherboards do not have an esata port? Is this an easy add-on?
Hi !
The difference in them are that the E8500 are a faster processor 3,16Ghz with 2 cores and with 6mb cache. The Q9300 are 2,5Ghz processor with 4 cores and 6mb cache.
The q9300 gives you 4 cores, and this means that you can with ease do 4 processes at the same time without any lagg - like ripping a cd,converting a film to another format, watch a movie and surf at the same time.
You may do that with E8500 too, but you`ll notice the difference in 2 and 4 cores in their work.
One thing that works in the favor of E8500 is that each core have more cache and higher speed - we do talk of 666hz in difference from Q9300.
If you are a vivid gamer I would go for the E8500 and if you are more allrounder the Q9300.
When it comes to single programs that uses 4 cores effectively - they are few yet, and they would run on the 64bit platform. I don`know what the status are on the game front.
Since E8500 and Q9300 are 45nm I would go for a Intel X38 chipset motherboard with DDR3 ram. You`ll will get the maximum of a system with these two combined. http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/X38/index.htm
The DDR3 ram are yet more expensive than DDR2. When you buy - do buy in pairs and min 4GB.
Esata are standard on the newest motherboards, and if you buy external storage you`ll notice the greate difference from USB. Addon internal cards for Esata ("Controllers")- both PCI and PCI Express - are widely avaliable, but remember to get one with a internal power option.
burkhartmj
05-20-2008, 06:44 AM
Hi !
The difference in them are that the E8500 are a faster processor 3,16Ghz with 2 cores and with 6mb cache. The Q9300 are 2,5Ghz processor with 4 cores and 6mb cache.
The q9300 gives you 4 cores, and this means that you can with ease do 4 processes at the same time without any lagg - like ripping a cd,converting a film to another format, watch a movie and surf at the same time.
You may do that with E8500 too, but you`ll notice the difference in 2 and 4 cores in their work.
One thing that works in the favor of E8500 is that each core have more cache and higher speed - we do talk of 666hz in difference from Q9300.
If you are a vivid gamer I would go for the E8500 and if you are more allrounder the Q9300.
When it comes to single programs that uses 4 cores effectively - they are few yet, and they would run on the 64bit platform. I don`know what the status are on the game front.
Since E8500 and Q9300 are 45nm I would go for a Intel X38 chipset motherboard with DDR3 ram. You`ll will get the maximum of a system with these two combined. http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/X38/index.htm
The DDR3 ram are yet more expensive than DDR2. When you buy - do buy in pairs and min 4GB.
Esata are standard on the newest motherboards, and if you buy external storage you`ll notice the greate difference from USB. Addon internal cards for Esata ("Controllers")- both PCI and PCI Express - are widely avaliable, but remember to get one with a internal power option.
I would pretty much agree, with a few differences.
X38 and X48 are definitely great chipsets for both procs [dont sweat any price diff between the 2, only difference is that X48 natively supports some things that X38 still supports, but not natively].
I would disagree with the DDR3 suggestion though. They are as expensive as hell and a couple comparisons to DDR2 RAM show DDR3 either a tiny bit faster or even sometimes slower.
As far as 2 vs 4 cores, though a lot can't utilize 4 cores at once, there are a few games [admittedly not many] that I've heard can, and in the near future, more and more will get multithreaded capabilities. If you need the power now, and/or will be buying a new proc in the next couple years, go with the E8500, otherwise the Q9300 is a more futureproof choice. And I suspect that starting with Windows 7, MS is gonna start REALLY pushing 64-bit over 32, so the OS will be able to fully utilize the 4 cores as well.
Both are overclockable a good amount, but I believe the multiplier for the Q9300 is more limiting than the E8500, but I haven't really looked much into how fast the E8500 can get [I think by now you can tell the next one i plan on buying =)]. the Q9300 has been stable at 3+ GHz.
better processor for you heavily depends on how you use your computer, but I know about DDR3 vs DDR2, don't waste your money yet. 8GB of DDR2 is cheaper and faster than than 4GB of DDR3.