I'm sorry to tell you this but yodenny doesn't know what he's talking about. A X3440 will destroy a Q9450 across the board. It clocks at least as high or higher depending on the chip and performs 20-40% better clock for clock than a core 2 quad.
The only cpus faster than what you have now for dolphin are sandy bridge, ivy bridge, and haswell. Do not bother with anything else. Haswell is strongly recommended at this point.
An i7 880 would not be a significant upgrade from an X3440.
On what data do you base this conclusion on? Every benchmark out there of the two architecture shows the exact opposite to be true. Including our very own WW benchmark.
Sure if you completely ignore the L3 cache which the X3440 has and the Q9450 doesn't have.
And why would you assume that IPC is based entirely on cache size?
The only cpus faster than what you have now for dolphin are sandy bridge, ivy bridge, and haswell. Do not bother with anything else. Haswell is strongly recommended at this point.
An i7 880 would not be a significant upgrade from an X3440.
yodenny Wrote:the Core2 Quad Q9450 has more single core performance and thats a good thing for dolphin though
On what data do you base this conclusion on? Every benchmark out there of the two architecture shows the exact opposite to be true. Including our very own WW benchmark.
yodenny Wrote:the X3440 is newer the Q9450 has much more l2 cache 12 MB vs 1 MB and more l2 cache per core 3 MB/core vs 0.25 MB/core so to me the Q9450 is the winner
Sure if you completely ignore the L3 cache which the X3440 has and the Q9450 doesn't have.
And why would you assume that IPC is based entirely on cache size?
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