processor speed for a compaq armada 3500?
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do a search for everest home edition and install it this program will tell you everything you want to know
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There is not, that I am aware of, no. Of course... dual core is where AMD's numbers stop making sense. The numbers they give their processors is supposed to give you an idea of how fast they are compared to intel (ie an Athlon 3500 should be as fast as an intel 3.5ghz, even though the athlon is running at something like 1.8ghz) However... the AMD dual core numbers are still being compared to Intel single core... so an X2 4800 is supposed to be as fast as an intel single core 4.8ghz (which doesn't actually exist, of course) Not an intel dual core 4.8ghz (which also doesn't exist... oh my god, you'd feel the heat from miles away) So now AMD has come out with new crap numbers that apparently don't mean anything except when you compare them to other AMDs, they're just... arbitrary... numbers. And that makes my head hurt. But anyway my point is, there's no intel dual core 64 bit 3.6ghz+ cpu that I'm aware of, however AMD *might* have something that's its equivalent in speed, but your guess is as good as mine, because their numbers don't make sense anymore.
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Less now than ever before.  The key to maximum performance now is matching the CPU, Memory, Bus, Hard drive and Video speeds.  Increasing any one of these may have little effect if the other four are "slow" in comparison.
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To add on the posts above.  Yes you will want to get the faster RAM, especially if your motherboard supports that bus speed.  Even if your motherboard's bus speed is slower, get the faster RAM, it will slow itself down automatically to operate with your system, but if you ever decide to overclock your FSB, then you won't have to worry about frying the RAM modules.\n\nFor reference, 266MHz RAM is referred to as PC2100, and 333MHz is referred to as PC 2700.  PC 3200 is 400MHz and it goes on.  \n\nThere are other factors to the speed of a RAM module that are often overlooked.  Make sure you purchase low-latency RAM.  It will be a bit more expensive, but well worth it.  The cheap RAM is called high-density, then you have low-latency and ultra low-latency (may be others).  Also, make sure you check the SPD timings (Serial Presence Detect), and compare them.  The lower the numbers, the faster the RAM.  Hope this was informative enough.  Good luck.
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Are you sure you need to upgrade the processor?\n\nHow much memory (RAM) do you have?  This is usual a more important factor in higher end systems (2.80 Ghz is a pretty decent CPU).
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Personally, I'd go with Centrino (which I believe is now called Pentium M).  I don't believe a Pentium M chip is close to 3.0GHz but there are other benefits aside from the reduced speed of the processor.  The main problems that I have with a P4 chip and any laptop is the amount of heat that is generated and the weak battery life.  A P4 chip wasn't really designed for a laptop unlike Centrino, which Intel designed specifically so that laptops would run longer without as much heat.  I think that's more important.  If you go ahead with the P4 chip, I would definitely make sure that the heat and the low battery life aren't going to be annoyances to you.  There are also more features to Centrino than just these but that's beyond the scope of this question.  Anyhow, most laptops are coming with 512MB RAM, which should be plenty for most common tasks.  If you consider yourself a power user, you may want to go with 1GB.  I'm not too familiar with laptops that come with AMD chips...I've actually never heard of any.  And Pentium is always better than Celeron.
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The new Intel Duo-something. I have an AMD processor in this one though and it seems to be pretty fast.
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sure minimum sys req:\n\n    *  Pentium 233 MHz (Recommended: Pentium 500MHz or greater)\n    * 64 MB RAM (Recommended: 128 MB RAM or greater)\n    * 52 MB hard drive space
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ok you only want the system to surf the net, i pressume you will at some point want to watch video files?\nso you want a system with a minimum 512MB 333mhz or faster (higher numbered) DDR or DDRII RAM(Minimum).\nprocessor speed of 1.8GHz (1800Mhz) is a little slow but will work adequetly (i built a system for a neighbour with similer requirements to yours)\nas much cach level 1 and level 2 as possible (the higher the number the better)\n\nfor your needs as a beginer 120GB (unformatted) 111GB approx (formatted) should be a good starting point, however make sure the hard drive RPM is above 7200RPM and if the system has SATA capability even if the system has no sata drive installed will enable you to upgrade to larger hard drives (although you can upgrade your primary drive) SATA transfers faster than PATA/UDMA/IDE drives of the same size and RPM.\n\nif you can make sure the System has seagate brand hard drive(s) as this brand is the most reliable you can get.\nyou should also check the systems PSU (Power Supply Unit) as most budget systems come with only around a 350 to 400W this will in the short term be ok your system may (if you get the right PSU) work faster and with a greater level of system stability with a much larger PSU for example in my primary system i have a 650W PSU but then i'm running 7 internal hard drives, 1 DVD burner, floppy multiple PCI cards, AGP graphics card, AMD Sempron 3400 CPU.\n\nyour current system at 240MB? that sounds a little problem? as memory is normaly in multiples such as 128MB, 256MB, 512MB, 1024MB (1GB), and buffered or unbuffered you should never mix buffered and unbuffered in the same system or your system will become unstable.\nremember when you get your new system you should be able to install the old hard drive in the new system for ease of accessing your old personal data.\n\nif you were local to me i could possibly provide better assistance such as either browsing the stores with you or buying the components and assembling the system yourself.\nremember that if you do build a new computer and scrap your old one you can get away with using your old software, some of your old hardware such as your display panel keyboard and mouse etc.\nthe only think you would realy need to buy would be new main board, CPU, RAM, and possibly a new hard drive. you then just scrap your old system components. which means if money is tight why buy a complete new system if you only need the new components, by buying and building selectively you can get more for your money effectively. however unless you know what you are doing you could fry the componets as they are electostaticaly sensetive, so you need to ground yourself with a wrist strap or other device when building your system remeber to ground to any properly earthed such as a cable connected to bare copper on a central heating system or other similar instalation.
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the upgrade will be determined by the motherboard so you will have to research the manufactures website physically a P2 and P3 are the same until you get to the flipchip  socket 370, most of the old computer motherboards required jumpers to set the speed, personaly the gain will be marginal if you want a real boost get a new motherboard processor combo but price wise you would be better buying a new computer as you probably have windows 95 or 98 and just the operating system will cost close to $100 for XP. If you are on a budget check ebay for a nice P4 system that has a slower processor you should be able to buy something much quicker for $200
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The extreme editions.\n  \nIntel Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 3.73GHz / 2MB Cache / 1066MHz FSB / Socket 775 / Hyper-Threading /
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The equivalent of the sempron 3000+ 1.8 GHz is about the Celeron D 335 2.8GHz according to this test report.\n\nhttp://techreport.com/reviews/2004q3/sempron/index.x?pg=1
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Start -> Control Panel -> System\n\nA dialogue box will come up with details of your system hopefully including Processor type and clock speed.
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You cannot actually make the processor operate any faster (the most you can do is enter setup while just turning on the PC and choosing to set the processor speed to fastest). However, if you would like to speed up the time it takes to turn on the PC and get things going, go to Start --> Run --> Type "msconfig". Now go to the last tab called startup and uncheck any programs that are from your program installations (make sure you know what each does) and leave only the firewall checked. Though dont touch system programs such as Systray. Now press ok and restart the PC. This will eliminate the stealth programs running in the background at all times and eliminate them from slowing down your PC.
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Just about everything.  But mainly games and high-end software like video editing, photo editing... anything that requires lots of horsepower.  The more cache a CPU has the more instruction it can store close (on) the CPU and it will excute everything faster.  L1 cache is the fastest and the AMD Athlon 64 3700+ (San Diego) has 64KB+64KB (128KB) of L1 cache and 1MB of L2 cache.  This varies among processors, Semprons have less and Athlons have more.  The same applies to Intel with the Pentium 4 and Pentium Ds, they have more and the Celerons have less.\n\nIt does matter.  See how slow a Sempron 3100+ is compared to a Athlon 3000+, despite the Sempron having a faster core, you will find that the Athlon 3000+ is actually and performs tasks faster than the Sempron.\n\nThis link might help you, http://www.computerworld.com/networkingtopics/networking/lanwan/story/0,10801,44333,00.html
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I don't have the MacBook, but I have the PowerBook that I purchased last summer and I love it.  It is absolutely ready to go out of the box.  The battery life is not great, depending on what you are doing I would say 3-4 hours.\nIf you are just going to be doing standard stuff, i.e. word processing, iPhoto, surf the web, iTunes etc.  then 1.83 GHZ should be fine.  If   you are using more sophisticated graphic arts or music editing software you might want the 2.0,  The difference is the speed of the processor.\nGood luck, hope you enjoy it!\nYahoo is Mac compatible BTW
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if your talking about the bus speed of the cpu then its all based on whats its designed for. there is no way to upgrade the bus speed of the cpu. but if you are talking about the speed of the cpu then dont dump a lot of money on upgrading a computer just go ahead and buy a new one