How will dual core processors with a lower rating (1.6 ghz) handle games recomended for P4 2.0 ghz?
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well now it seems like dells xps are using like 1.6 dual cores .. i can compete with that easily with my socket 939 athlon 64 3500+ but if it was an intel it would be rated at 3.5ghz .. why i dont know.. if you can go dual core do it. no matter what the speeds are.. im not an intel fan. and personaly.. amd is winning right now.. i would go with amd athlon X2 processors. man are they fast and cool. well i have a p4 in my 2nd computer a dell xps and its 2.0ghz,. the dual core would bechmark higher by a mile.. the dual cores are out now. just kinda expensive!
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You can find the specs on the board by following this link from HP:  http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&cc=us&dest_page=product&product=1815823&dlc=en&docname=c00496280\n\nI'm not sure what you use your machine for, but unless you're doing heavy gaming or alot of multimedia processing, X2 processors won't give you much more than you'd get from a single core processor.  The applications that you run need to be multithreaded to take advantage of the dual core functionality.  If you are an avid gamer or multimedia junkie you'll get a boost from it.  It all depends on what you do with your machine.\n\nHope it helps!
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basically it depends on ones need.\nits the processor cycle speed and RAM size which really matters.\np4 2.66 ghz can work slow compare to amd 3.0 ghz.\nbut i feel for one desktop machine 256 mb RAM and p4 2.66ghz is better.
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If it's a single thread program, the pentium 3.0 ghz\nIf it's a multi thread program, the dual core.
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Get a 64/128 graphics card. Have enough empty space in C drive. If you can have around 1GB of page file and still enough C drive space. Almost all your games would run fine.
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having a dual core processor will not boost the performance. Dual core was designed for Multi Processing i.e decoding video and playing a game at the same time. \n\nmy advice is for you to notice the front side bus of the processor ( the more the marrier ) the cash memory of the processor, the Clock speed of the processor ( which people usually call processor speed ). also there is a big wieght on Ram and VGA card. when you lag in game, its not usually from the processor, its from the VGA card or memory. specially when in dust/fog environment. \n\nif you need more info on what to decide, refer to http://www.tomshardware.com\n\ngood luck
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1.6P4 has no hyper threading.....from what you ask seems like you built an Atari. You cant play these games on an ATARI
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Intel® Core™ Duo processor T2600\n65 nm 2MB L2 2.16 GHz 667 MHz 31W
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Intel® Core™2 Duo Processors
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http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=366290&whichpage=2? <that site might help you choose between the two processors
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Yes they run pretty good, not has fast has the Intel Core Duo but its not much of a difference if you don't run multiple programs at once. Also they consume a lot less power so your battery life can last much more, like 2 hours more then the Core Duo.
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hi....i found the following link suitable as an answer to ur query....plz visit this link....i hope it will answer ur query....regards.\n\nhttp://www.systemshootouts.org/processors.html
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For now just stick with 1gb but if your budget allows it i would upgrade to a better processor amdathlon 64 at least
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You need a 64-bit operating system.  Be happy, intel P4 owners couldn't until recently.
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The Intel Core 2  Duo processor is ripping the scene up right now.  Almost all computer manufactures are using this processor in their high end systems.\n\nWhen purchasing the computer make sure it says "Intel Core 2 Duo" and not "Intel Pentium D (or Dual-Core)."  That is an older model that uses much more power and delivers less performance.\n\nIt is okay for your Core 2 Duo processor to have a lower clock speed than its Pentium D counterpart.  (Ex, a Core 2 Duo at 2.4 GHz will outperform a Pentium D at 3.0 GHz).\n\nRemember that if you plan on gaming your video card is just as important as your processor.  If you  have enough money try and grab a Nvidia 8800 series card (totally rocking the gamer scene right now).\n\nGood luck and enjoy your new computer!\n\nUpdate:  A good company with reasonable prices and excellent support / warranty is Dell.  www.dell.com.  You might be able to get a cheaper system from a local computer dealer, or even cheaper if you build it yourself.  Be aware that this hot hardware requires at least some knowledge of cooling and power supplies if you plan on building yourself.
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Sounds like your processor is fast enough already to run anything you have for software. I would suggest against overclocking as it will put undue heat on your processor chip. If you do overclock it you wont see much if any change in how your system runs. Ya really wanna take the chance and burn that chip up? If you want to see better performance invest in some more ram sam...
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You're buying a loptop, so power use will be important to you. Batteries life is terrible with high power components, including the CPU. \n\n=======\npower\n\nAnd that's the first distinction. The Pentium M was designed for minimum power consumption in a Pentium compatible CPU. So your batteries will last longer. \n\nThe Duo Core CPUs are really two CPU cores in one chip. IF the operating system, and application design (which you can't affect) support them properly, such a CPU can be much faster than a single CPU, all other things being equal. But the Duo Core chips use more power, so your battery life will suffer, all other things being equal. This may be worth it, if you are doing computationally intensive stuff, and if your software / operating system can take advantage of the additional CPU. Otherwise, it will make little difference. \n\n========\ngraphics performance\n\nOne computationally intensive use that's common is gaming. it takes a good deal of effort to calculate color brightness and shading for each pixel in a scene, and there are lots of scenes. In fact, it takes so much computational power that vendors have largely given up on making the CPU 9or CPUs) do it all. Recent graphics schemes, the ones that make game images snap and sparkle, during play require a lot of work from some processing chip. The best of the graphics processor chips have more computational power than nearly all CPUs, and they require comparable electrical power (draining batteries still more quickly). It's this reason that accounts for laptops rarely having cutting age graphics performance or CPU speeds. In particular, the graphics hardware in most laptops has low power needs and is hardly up to recent graphics performance standards. \n\n==============\nCPU architecture differences\n\nAnother issue, which will matter only if your use of the laptop needs it, is differences between various Pentium editions. Intel has added more instructions, and used different internal architectures, as they have designed new CPUs. These include new instructions (the SSE, SSE2, etc groups) and the 64 bit EM64T additions to the basic 32-bit core, in emulation of AMD's Opteron and AthlonFX approaches. But for the moment, until your applications can use those extensions, and until your operating system is fully 64-bit compatible, your EM64T CPU will be running mostly in 32-bit mode. And recent Pentium 4 CPUs have included something called Hyperthreading which speeds up some kinds of programs substantially. And, of course, various Intel CPUs have included more or less fast cache on the CPU chip itself. If this is done sensibly, cache (and more cache) can have dramatic effects on many kinds of program execution speeds.\n\nDepending on detailed comparisons between the CPUs you're considering, some (or none) of these differences between CPUs might be significant to you. See Intel's spec sheets for the CPUs you're looking at for the differences. \n\n\n\nIn your case, since you aren't a gamer, the merely adequate graphics hardware in most laptops will probably be acceptable. Your mention of graphics programming might mean image manipulation, and either CPU should do in that case. Photoshop and similar programs don't have to handle graphic manipulations in real time, and so their demands are much less for satisfactory performance than video (or near video -- such as games) processing. \n\nWord processing simply doesn't have so high requirements. After all, any CPU sits doing nothing for eternities between key presses, even for fast typists. There's lots of available cycles from most any CPU in most any word processing operation. \n\nSo, for you, which would be better? mostly, it depends on the work you'll be doing and the applications with which you'll be doing it. If they can take advantage of the processor features in one or another CPU (not something you can easily find out, probably even from the software de