You dont know dual core until you really know dual core processing. My work upgraded my machine from a 2.8 ghz P4 with 1 gb ram to a 2.33 ghz Core 2 duo processor desktop with 2 gb ram on Windows XP. :shock::shock:

Difference is fookin day and night.

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^^^I was told that the second core was strcitly an overflow and that a single core processor with a clocked higher speed will out preform a dual core processor clocked at a lower seed. Any chance the additional gig of ram or threading is your saving grace?

[QUOTE]Most of the early dual-core processors are going to be running at lower clock speeds compared to single core processors. The rational behind it is that a dual-core processor with each running at 1GHz should be equivalent to a single processor running at 2GBz. The problem is that this doesn't work in practice when the applications are not written to take advantage of the multiple processors. Until the software is written this way, unthreaded applications will run faster on a single processor than a dual-core CPU. [/QUOTE]

[URL]http://compreviews.about.com/od/cpus/a/dualcore.htm[/URL]

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well that is partially correct but you gotta consider the fact that even L2 and L3 caches have gotten a boost and so overall the processor takes advantage of it. Yes the 1 gb extra ram DEFINITELY has the added advantage of running more applications at the same time but overall speed of execution is definitely noticeable.

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my work computer is a Pentium D 3.0 ghz with 2gb of Ram on windows XP

only bad thing about it is that it uses an on-board video card.

thing is so fuckin fast, wish i could trade-in my home computer for it lol

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[QUOTE=Kamal;551782]You dont know dual core until you really know dual core processing. My work upgraded my machine from a 2.8 ghz P4 with 1 gb ram to a 2.33 ghz Core 2 duo processor desktop with 2 gb ram on Windows XP. :shock::shock:

Difference is fookin day and night.[/QUOTE] almost exactly the switch I got here in work. Started with exactly the same processor with 504MB ram and moved up to a 1.86ghz Core 2 duo with 2 gb ram, both on XP...what a difference. Spend almost a full 5 minutes less in the morning just starting up ;)

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my work is having hardware trouble with the Lenovo T61 models. -2Ghz core duo with the 128MB nvidia graphics cards.

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The only gripe I have with my Lenovo is that it doesn't always go into Standby when I close the lid but I think that's due to harsh conditions of traveling on a daily basis.

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There is of course the fact that The Core 2 architecture is so much better than the Pentium 4's netburst architecture. I've you remember before the Core was released people were retrofitting Pentium M's (that was for laptops) to there desktops as the CPU was far more efficient and could do more per mhz than the P4. And they were single core chips.

So you got a combo of better efficiency and a second core to to the work. As long as the OS and software take advantage of it.

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was thinking of investing on a quad core this year but i,ve read somewhere that programers havnt quite caught up with the fact that there are more cores to deal with so really the only things that had much improvement were things like rendering etc

[url=http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000942.html]this is actually a quite good read[/url]

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At work i'm sitting in front of 2 Dell 2007wf monitors connected to a HP xw8400 workstation with a 2x3.00 GHz dualcore and 3 gigs of RAM. Not too bad but at home i have a 2x2.33 GHz dualcore with 2 gigs of RAM and a brand new 24'' monitor so i'm not too jealous :)