Which is the better processor....

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...out of the following:

Athlon II X2 220 - 2.8GHz
Pentium E5500 - 2.8GHz

Thanks.
 
...out of the following:

Athlon II X2 220 - 2.8GHz
Pentium E5500 - 2.8GHz

Thanks.

Little in it on paper really, the AMD has faster bus speeds and more L1 cache, the Intel has more L2 cache.

The Intel benchmarks a fair bit higher though.
 
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Little in it on paper really, the AMD has faster bus speeds and more L1 cache, the Intel has more L2 cache.

The Intel benchmarks a fair bit higher though.

But athlon tend to be weirdly faster and from my experience don't seem to slow much with age.

Personally i'd take the athlon, just make sure you've got a decent cooling system!
 
I'd go with the Intel chip, they use more of my companies products to make their chips than GF (the foundry making AMD chips) so I'll get slightly more sales in.
 
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