Quote Originally Posted by hollo View Post
extra cache may make a big difference in games if you run at low gfx settings so you're getting hundreds of fps (eg.. ), but benchmarking game performance like that is misleading, you just turn the 'game benchmark' into a spi clone (10-20% performance difference due to cache alone). at realworld settings the difference between a q7500 and q9450 set to equal fsb & multi would be more like 1-2% (except for high end multi-gpu setups)

eg vaguely like the top 3 graphs on this page http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...er,1709-5.html
Which totally explains this (not).