Bang for Buck: E1200 or E2160

[AdamR79]

The e2160 is ~33% more expensive than the e1200, and both seem to o/c well to around 3GHz on stock cooling (will be trying for 3.2GHz though). Am I really going to see the benefit of 1MB L2 cache over 512KB?

 

[llwyd]

The e2160 is ~33% more expensive than the e1200, and both seem to o/c well to around 3GHz on stock cooling (will be trying for 3.2GHz though). Am I really going to see the benefit of 1MB L2 cache over 512KB?

In certain things you will see the benefits yes, but in gaming the differences will be minimal.

 

[AdamR79]

Glad to hear that, although the celerons seem to have gone up £5 in a week lol

 

[GavX]

I would still go for the Pentium over Celeron, and as for L2 cache not being needed for gaming, form what I hear it is the complete opposite, if you can, get the E2160 every time

 

[AdamR79]

I just ordered the e1200

Ah well, if im not happy I can always ebay it and change

 

[llwyd]

I would still go for the Pentium over Celeron, and as for L2 cache not being needed for gaming, form what I hear it is the complete opposite, if you can, get the E2160 every time

Well to be fair it depends on the type of game but games that will be constantly refreshing images and running varying scripts constantly will not utilize cache that much. For something like photoshop or decoding, where the same algorithms are run over and over, the cache will be of benefit.