TC wrote:
> Well, the Q9550 comes with 2x6MB L2 cache at 2.83 GHz, the i7-920 has 8 
> MB-L3 cache at 2.66 GHz and the AMD has 4x512kB L1 + 6MB L2 at 3.0 GHz.
> 
> And this is my problem - Q9550 is quite fast with plenty of cache, the 
> AMD seems to be fastest with 3 GHz but has less cache, the i7 has least 
> GHz but newest architecture... and frankly I have no idea how these 
> factors balance.

Buy the Q9550.

Currently Core 2 is faster than Phenom at the same clock speeds, and 
Core i7 is still absurdly expensive.

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