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No-one seems to talk about Pentium 4's anymore, in fact it only seems to be me who is behind the times lol.
Anyhow I currently have a P4 3.4 but I have ordered a new PC which has an Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 (2 x 3.16 GHZ) chip.
I know that on paper the E8500 looks less powerful than the P4 but Ive got the impression from this forum that just one of the cores of the E8500 is better than my P4 due to modern architecture.
I wondered if someone could give me an idea of how the two chips compare from a Pentium reference point of view please, ie is one of the cores of an E8500 equilivant to say a P4 3.5?, a P4 4.2?, a P4 5.0 -that kind of reference I'm sure you get my drift
Anyhow I currently have a P4 3.4 but I have ordered a new PC which has an Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 (2 x 3.16 GHZ) chip.
I know that on paper the E8500 looks less powerful than the P4 but Ive got the impression from this forum that just one of the cores of the E8500 is better than my P4 due to modern architecture.
I wondered if someone could give me an idea of how the two chips compare from a Pentium reference point of view please, ie is one of the cores of an E8500 equilivant to say a P4 3.5?, a P4 4.2?, a P4 5.0 -that kind of reference I'm sure you get my drift
