which of these two CPUs would be "better"

[darkpaw]

I'm looking to setup a new home-theater PC, which has a Blu-Ray player in it (running Vista Home Premium on an ATI Radeon 4650 video card), and am down to choice of CPU that fits in the budget for it.

I have it down to two roughly the same price, but with totally different specs. They are:

Pentium D940:
clock - 3.2GHz
bus - 800MHz
cache - 4MB

Core 2 Duo e6320:
clock - 1.86GHz
bus - 1066MHz
cache - 4MB

One has a much higher clock speed, but slower bus. The other has a much higher bus, but slower clock. The caches are the same between them.

Which of these would give the better performance for the system specs I listed up above?

[frag_]

Core 2 Duo E6320 is faster and produce less heat.

[Guest]

Absolutely, go for core 2 duo.

[andamus]

Go with Core 2 Duo

[darkpaw]

Really? Even with that large of a difference in clock speed?

OK, thanks for the tips. I appreciate the help.

[andamus]

[D.8080]

That's right brother!

Allelujah!