[Ham-Computers] Processor comparison

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Dave,

Aaron can probably give a quantative answer but qualitatively, if your 
experience is similar to mine it should actually be faster with the Duo.  Last week 
I replaced an Intel 865 board and 3.1 GHz P-IV with a 965 and a 1.86 GHz Core 
2 Duo.  There may well be other components (including the system board) 
involved in the difference, and of course comparing drive intensive operations 
wouldn't be fair (old = EIDE, new = SATA).  But for operations like browsing and 
even booting up, what looks like a slower CPU is much faster.

In a message dated 5/30/2007 3:55:24 PM Central Daylight Time, 
dcorio at zitomedia.net writes: 
>     Gateway is replacing my defective PC with a new one. On the surface, 
> the new processor appears to be slower than the old one, but I seem to 
> recall that a P-IV would be faster than a P-III if they were both rated 
> at the same speed. Would someone be able to tell me what, if any 
> difference I might see in going from
> 
>     3.4 Ghz Pentium-4
> 
>              to a
> 
>     2.0 Ghz Core 2 Duo
> 
>     Given that the amount of RAM will remain the same at 1G.
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> Dave
> KB3MOW
> 

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