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I have a newish laptop with 4GB RAM and the i3 -470 M processor but integrated graphics (which despite one site telling me this is better than a Pentium Dual core E-5800 I think not at least on this aspect) I was looking at a desktop as they can run much higher speeds.
For the price range I found the Medion X11 which has the pentium dual core E-5800 which is 3.2GHz Vs 2.4 GHZ but unfortunately has no L3 cache Vs 3MB on my current processor. No stats on the FSB for the i3 available however diagnostic test told me it was 133MHZ vs 800MHZ although the multiplier was higher. As I like audio recording I was thinking that outright speed is more important than number of threads/cores and the only test site I could find listed the Pentium E-5800 as being 10 places higher so roughly comparable in performance.
As this desktop also is 64 Bit vista but has a 1GB dedicated graphics memory I was thinking that the processor and memory would be more free than in my current computer to process audio, Which of these processors performs more calculations per second, which is more suited for audio applications and would the graphics memory swing things decidely in favour of the desktop if the processors are in your opinion at more or less "dead heat".