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Intel P4 or Dual core

jor000

jor000

jor000

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I cant find a thread on this subject to do with intel, but basically i want to know if its worth getting a Dual core over a single core.

Money is not really an issue, but dont want to waste it, eg wouldnt pay an extra £150 for .2GHz because its the latest. I would therefore be looking at probably the second best of both varietys. I use windows media player to watch films, internet browser, video editing and a few other bits at the same time and dont know if having a dual core would be much different to a much faster single core with a few gigs of memory. I was looking at the 930 dual core 3.4GHz, but after reading other threads realised i might be better off with something like a P4 660 3.6Ghz single, with more RAM

Any help or oppinions on this matter would be much appreciated, Thanks, Jordan
 
Ok, i hadnt even looked at AMD. I have an amd athlon 2800+ (clock at 2.08Ghz) at the moment and its struggling to do a few tasks. i was only going with intel as i heard they were true to their speed they were advertised as where as AMDs run a lot slower. The top AMD dual core 4800 says it only runs at 2.4Ghz where as intel says 3.4Ghz, and is cheaper. But if AMD is the one to be with ill choose that instead.
 
does the fact that AMDs L2 Cache is half Intels have anything to do with its speeds and ability of running aplications?

So which should i go for then, AMD or intel, and then single or dual core?
 
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