quad vs i5

[yinny99]

I have a choice at the moment of a Core i5 650 or a Quad Q8300. I use my pc for mainly office type suff and rarely play high end games. I do use photoshop and stuff like that.

On cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html the quad scores higher than the i5.

Which cpu should i choose to use?

Thanks

[CPUShack]

the i5 is a much newer and faster design.

For your use, it will be faster. It has L3 cache (which the Q8300 doesnt) as well as a faster clock (and faster architecture)

It also draws less power.

[yinny99]

Ok thanks for that, why would the benchmark test show the quad scoring 3558 and the i5 only 3121? Sorry to be dumd but i am not an expert on CPU performance

Thanks

[CPUShack]

benchmark makes use of all 4 cores, and isnt particularly an accurate indication of real world performance.