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SuorySuory Member Posts: 90
in Hardware

Hey guys,

I have a really quick question.

I have heard all over the net that Intel is way to go over AMD for various reasons, so I am going to go with a Intel CPU in a new PC that I am going to build.

Here is my question.

AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000 has a Operating Frequency of 3.0 GHz

Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 Conroe has a Operating Frequency  of 2.66GHz

I always thought that the higher the number the faster the CPU was. I know that I dont know a whole lot about computers, but can someone explain how the Intel in that choice will be faster than the AMD?

Thanks in advance for advice. Dont be to hard on me lol.

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  • JennysMindJennysMind Member UncommonPosts: 869

    I would be more concerned about L2 cache than the speed of the processor. I would visit a place like www.anandtech.com to read up on the benchmarks and their reveiws.

  • SpathotanSpathotan Member Posts: 3,928

    Screw the E6750, get the Q6600.

    "There's no star system Slave I can't reach, and there's no planet I can't find. There's nowhere in the Galaxy for you to run. Might as well give up now."
    — Boba Fett

  • daelnordaelnor Member UncommonPosts: 1,556

    Originally posted by Spathotan
    Screw the E6750, get the Q6600.

    Depends. If he isn't overclocking, I'd go with the duo core still, it has a 1333fsb vs. a 1066fsb on the quad.

    D.

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  • TheFranchiseTheFranchise Member Posts: 241

    Suory, a faster ghz rating doesn't necessarily mean one brand chip is faster than another. A typical Core2Duo is a slower ghz than the previous dual-core series Intel chips, but the Core2Duo chips completely blow them away due to having better architecture. Even the newest AMD chips are shown to be behind the C2Ds. Everything has its place if the price is right, though.

    Used to be the AMD chips had the lower ghz ratings but were faster than Intel.

    People said similar about the 7600GT video card being only 128-bit. The specs really weren't all tht great, but the architecture was efficient and good and had many people scratching their heads wondering why it performed as well as it did.

  • CorthagathCorthagath Member Posts: 291

     

    go with the intel mate, not sure about those quad-cpu processors though... as so far, games arent using their potential and hence, dual core processors dont lose "too much" to those quad processors so far if im right.. not much at all. im not sure about the future though...

  • Ben-HarrisonBen-Harrison Member Posts: 20

    If you're mostly gaming (and not rendering 3D work or the like), I'd go with a high clocked (but newer architecture, as mentioned above) dual core (which means Intel Core 2, currently) rather than quad core, which run hotter and draw more power.

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