Quote Originally Posted by mAJORD View Post
If anyones interested in an i9300 vs a9850 compo also, I have both puppies here, won't take long to inst identical Vista installs and do some testing
Actually, yes... I just picked up a i9300 myself, so getting someone to run benches to check reproducibility across different configs would be interesting to.

What MB, memory, OS?

EDIT: What I am finding (initial info) is that the 6 Meg (1/2 the cache) at the same clock has a bigger impact than what I would have thought.