<p>What processor speed do you have and what speed do you think is the best?</p>
<p>Is 3.20 GHz alot or a little?</p>
<p>Thats pretty good...I take it you're talking a desktop</p>
<p>yes it is a desktop</p>
<p>I bought a laptop with a 2.0Ghz Core Duo processor, which is equivalent to a 3.6Ghz Pentium 4 desktop.</p>
<p>Whats the exact processor you're looking at?</p>
<p>Intel Celeron D processor</p>
<p>Oh yea...a 3.2Ghz should be great...they're dual core now so its good.</p>
<p>And AbN610- It doesnt work out quite like that</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice FerstAmmendment. </p>
<p>Also I really appreciate you answering this thread, usually no one answers.</p>
<p>Its cool, alot of people going into college have no idea whats good and whats not.</p>
<p>well I kinda have an idea what is good, but I wanted to double check. Besides I heard that the new windows os is coming out soon so I want a computer that I can upgrade.</p>
<p>Yea, make sure you get about 2 gigs of ram for when Vista comes out...right now most processors won't be able to take full advantage of all Vista technology. I'm not sure if they have one...but if they do, make sure you get the 64 bit version of the Pentium D</p>
<p>Don't get celeron processors, they're crap.</p>
<p>I had celeron processors many times and they were not crap. I guess it depends on how you use your pc. gaming, internet, work, etc...</p>
<p>FerstAmendment, would you like to explain yourself as to why it would not work out like that? - referring to me saying that my 2.0Ghz Core Duo processor runs similarly to a 3.6Ghz Pentium 4 processor. Of couse the Core Duo will out perform the P4, but this is just a general comparison. I know for a fact that this is the case so I would just like to hear the pathetic explanation that you have to give.</p>
<p>Wait for Core Duo 2.</p>
<p>Celerons are usually looked down upon for slow clock speeds and whatnot.</p>
<p>Whoa, dont get catty..im just saying that a 2g dual core isnt the same as a 3.6 pentium 4. About the comparison...if your talking raw power..a single core 3.2ghz can beat out a dual core 2.0ghz...you have to understand that there are two microprocessors using the same bus. Bringing down performance. Now if both microprocessors worked on the same application then your comparison may be true, but then that defeats the purpose of the dual core...usually one microprocessor is working while the other lay dormant so to speak. Im not saying 2.0 dual core isnt damned good...b/c it is...You still have faster clock speeds and it takes up less energy, especially with the centrino's....but dual core's do tend to heat up alot faster than single cores, but thats not much of a problem</p>
<p>You dont have to wait...the first wave or Core 2's came out the other day</p>
<p>Wow, two gigs of RAM? Shiit, I though with a gig i would be fine. As for the OP, I just purchased an AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800. Works like a charm.</p>
<p>Honestly, these days processor speed doesn't matter that much. Only a few specific tasks really require fast processors (video/audio encoding [note, not decoding, as modern GPUs do that now] ... actually that's all I can think of at the moment). Even games are almost always bottlenecked by the video card instead of the processor. So I wouldn't spend too much money on that; instead I'd up the RAM or get a better video card or something.</p>
<p>I have an Intel Duo 1.73 Ghz on my laptop and it's definitely fast enough for anything I do (including the latest games at max settings/resolution).</p>
<p>The promise of Intel’s Core Duo and Core Duo2 (and the AMD equivalents) will be met when software is optimized for a multiple processor environment. So far, no software that I know of has been updated to take advantage of Duo Core architecture. As Wired.com correctly points out: “…the positive effect might be noticeable while you have dozens of web page, a word processor, e-mail, a video editing application and Adobe windows open with a Winamp video playing in the background without any perceptible performance loss.” If this fits the way you work, then you will see an advantage with a Core Duo system. Until productivity and gaming software is updated for Core Duo systems, the net effect for most of us will be minimal, at best. And if you only have a few programs opened at any given time, you may see no advantage at all.</p>
<p>See the following articles:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,67795,00.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,67795,00.html</a>
<a href="http://compreviews.about.com/od/cpus/a/dualcore.htm%5B/url%5D">http://compreviews.about.com/od/cpus/a/dualcore.htm</a></p>