"scott" <sco### [at] scottcom> wrote in message
news:4a4b4643$1@news.povray.org...
> > 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.
>
> Check out:
>
> http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html

That doesn't look very, well, reliable, judging by the top entry.

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