I purchased an Athlon 64 3000+?
I purchased an Athlon 64 3000+ showing 1.8Ghz ..I showed it to my friend.His Pentium 4 purchased 2 years ago is at 2.4Ghz.He is saying his PC is more powerful than myne.Is it true??
2007-05-09 03:43:24 · 3 answers · asked by this t 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
newegg.com has those on sale for 29.00 w/ free shipping...if you paid more than that you got ripped...
in comparison to the 2x line from AMD and the duo's this thing is a dog...
everyone else is right, AMD's have low Ghz speed than Intel but are much faster clock for clock. For year's and years AMD has been saying that it's not about how fast your processor spins ( in Ghz) it's all about how much work it does in the same amount of time. Oddly enought, intel just joined the band wagon with the core duo's which have lower Ghz speed, higher Fsb and do more work, faster at lower Ghz speeds...they just did what AMD has been doing for years but better, faster and cheaper...
cheers...
2007-05-09 04:39:05 · answer #1 · answered by jacksonphisig 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your Athlon is approximately the same average speed in reality because of the difference in the way AMD and Intel work as a general rule AMD had a bigger on board cashe and Intel is smaller which means AMD has to make fewer trips to the RAM memory than the Intel with the smaller primary cache
2007-05-09 03:55:13 · answer #2 · answered by doktorpasquneille 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not true. Yours is faster.
The true clock speed of the AMD is 1.8GHZ. The "3000+" moniker, is saying it is virtually as fast, or faster, than an Intel 3GHZ CPU.
AMD CPUs do more "per clock cycle" than Intel CPUs.
For more info:
2007-05-09 03:57:20 · answer #3 · answered by ELfaGeek 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋