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What is a good processor speed for a new computer with a dual-core processor?
Question : What is a good processor speed for a new computer with a dual-core processor?
I am thinking about buying a new laptop PC. I want to know if the processor speeds I see on most new computers is comparable to my current computer. I have a Pentium 4 processor now that is 3.2 GHz. I see most of the newer computers seem to be at around 1.6GHz, but that is on the newer dual-core processors. Will the newer computer run as fast as my current one? I am deciding if I should have this one repaired or get a new one.
dual core processor
Best answer:
Answer by Ross the Boss
you have a P 4 at 3.2 GHz wow no need to upgraed then
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#2 written by ray_8128 1 year ago
I would look at the eBay completed listings prices for a similar computer to decide if it was worth repairing.
Any 1.6 GHz dual core type processor is faster that your single core P4 3.2 GHz.
A new computer running Vista will roughly require twice the processor performance than a computer running XP to run about the same. Also you will need 2GB RAM with Vista Home Premium (recommended).
Speed does not mean much any more. AMD and Intel dual type processors and their different models have vastly different performance even when run at the same GHz. To be able to compare performance see “CPU gaming performance charts”
CPU gaming performance charts
(lower number is faster)
http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu_2007.htmlCPU Benchmarks
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/index.phpGraphics card gaming performance charts:
http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics.html
http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=399&type=expert&pid=1
http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1595&Itemid=40&limit=1&limitstart=2Mobile Graphics Cards – Benchmark List
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Graphics-Cards-Benchmark-List.844.0.htmlDirectX 9 vs 10
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/pcs/directx-9-vs-directx-10-worth-upgrading-to-vista-for-243099.php -
#3 written by silencetheevil8 1 year ago
The clock frequancy (3.2 Ghz) has little to do with how fast the computer is in the whole. A dual core T2300 has 2 cores each pushing 1.66 Ghz but 533Mhz of frontside bus this makes the T2300 literrally just as efficient as the P4 counterpart by extending the frontside bus and combining the cores, this is kinda like the next step in hyperthreading. To put this into easier terms I tested a Encode project by converting a VOB (MPEG2) to divx using a 3.2 Ghz P4 HT cpu I was able to encode a 120 minute video in about 2 hours per pass (roughly 30fps) doing the same with the T2300 I am able to do it in about the same amount of time with a little room to spare for enhanced quantizer setting this basically means the Duo can do the same as the P4 HT but more efficiently and using standard settings I have seen speeds in excess of 80 fps when doing DIVX encoding. Also remember there are a lot of other factors also that control the speed of a computer such as RAM types and RAM speed as well as hard drive speed and seek time.
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Back a few years ago it was all about the GHz, the higher the better. Then they hit a wall at around 3.2/3.6GHz. Then they figured out if they raised the FSB(front side bus) the speed of the CPU would run faster. Today look at the FSB speed & cache & then GHz. My roomate just bought a new laptop with an AMD turion dual core 2X TL-64 2. It has a FSB of 1600, 1MB cache & 2.2GHz. It is a screaming fast CPU & is faster than my older INTEL 2.8GHz dual core(INTEL 820)