How powerful is a core 2 duo over a pentium 4 3.0ghz HT ?
hi mate core 2 duo,s use a totally new architecture thats much more efficent than pentium 4,s,and yes a 1.8ghz core 2 duo would probally make mince meat of a 3ghz pentium 4 in terms of performance well i have had a pentium 4 3ghz,and also a 2.33ghz core 2 duo and on simple browsing and desktop tasks you dont notice much difference,infact in some cases the pentium 4 may seem faster however its not until you begin to multi-task and run more demanding programs that the core 2 duo,s superior architecture comes into play…were as the pentium 4,s single core suffers from bottlenecks and its inferior design you may also want to check out this comparison study of Pentium 4 vs Core2Duo (Comparison) : Dell Dimension 4600 Intel Pentium 4 Northwood 478 @ 2.40GHz (533 x 18) Intel i865p Northbridge Intel ICH5 Southbridge 1024 MB RAM (2 x 256) PC3200 (200MHz) @ 3-3-3-8 Dual-Channel ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB/128 Bit AGP 8X 3.0 @ 394MHz Core / 335MHz Mem 300w PSU WD 75 GB EIDE HD AquaMark3 Scores: GFX
