Intel E4500 vs Intel E8400

I was like wondering what it would be like to replace my Core 2 Duo E4500 with a Core 2 Duo E8400. It would most make sense to go for a Core 2 Quad but well I don’t seem to have the budget for it. There are a lotta benchmarks around that show that the E8x00 Series is much faster than the E6750 which is beaten is most of the gaming benchmarks. Most of the upper end E8x00 Series have the 6MB Shared L2 Cache as well in comparison to my E4500 which has only 2MB Shared L2 Cache. The major differences are that the new Wolfdale Processors come with a 1333MHz (as opposed to 800MHz), it also comes in 45nm fabrication process (as opposed to 65nm) and the cache size difference as mentioned before.

Below is a table summing up the differences between my current and the new Wolfdale Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 processor.

	Intel Core 2 Duo E8400	Intel Core 2 Duo E4500
Core	Wolfdale	Allendale
Front Side Bus	1333 MHz	800 MHz
Clock Speed	3.0 GHz	2.20 GHz
L2 Cache	6MB Shared	2MB Shared
Socket Type	LGA775	LGA775
Thermal Power	45W	65W
Fabrication Process	45 nm	65 nm
No of Cores	2	2
Intel VT	Yes	Yes
Hyperthreading Support	No	No