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Core Duo and my confused brain

Jon12345

Jon12345

Jon12345

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I am a little bit confused over the whole dual and quad processor thing. My workstation has a Pentium 4 2.66ghz or something like that. When I read of people using a core duo 1.5ghz, does this mean 1.5 x 2 processors which means effectively a Pentium 4 3.0 ghz? Or what?

Yours confusedly,

Jon
 
I understand precisely what you mean. But I still don't see the difference, since the Pentium 4 3.0ghz share's its cycle time between the different cpu intensive tasks. How is that different to dual core where you get 2 cpu's sharing their cycle time?
 
That was an extremely informative post and you have clarified so much for me. A big thank you. I suppose if you had an application that could use both cores at the same time, then you could have a computer 4 times the speed if the processor clock speeds are the same, correct?

There is a quad core processor out there for around £170. Does this work on the same principles as the Core 2 Duo?
 
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