I have refreshed my CPU price-performance analysis, to reflect several months of price drops.
This time Ihave added new data from Xbit-labs, which benchmarked the newest 1333MHz FSB CPUs. I added to that my previous data from the March Xbit-labs benchmarks, which I posted on my previous CPU analysis post. I have included Intel CPUs only, as my current focus is builing n Intel based Hackintosh.
The main interest in the following graph is that is shows the performance of the different CPUs relative to the CPU cost (all costs are from NewEgg, November 24 2007).
Analysis
It is interesting to see that pretty soon after their introduction, the newest 1333MHz FSB CPUs (E6550 and E6750) have made it to the front of price-performance graph, and achieve the same value (performance per dollar) as the previous value champs, the E4400 and E4300.
On the dotted line, all CPUs have the same performance per dollar ratio, so the choice becomes really a matter of optimization on the overall system cost. For a medium cost system ($800 or so), I would choose the E6750, as it costs only $60 more then the E4300, but delivers much higher performance.
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