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[ale] OT: AMD Athlon 64
- Subject: [ale] OT: AMD Athlon 64
- From: hbbs at comcast.net (Jeff Hubbs)
- Date: Sat, 06 May 2006 14:31:47 -0400
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <006301c67126$85ef8280$0301a8c0@rogue> <[email protected]>
By the time the CPU clock speed has doubled, other things will have
likely changed, not the least of which being the chipset and the speed
of the RAM. To the extent to which that is NOT the case, a CPU speed
doubling will have started to get choked by surrounding mechanisms whose
speed hasn't kept pace. So, you can wind up *faster* than twice-as-fast
or *slower*. Test, test, test with the load you plan to run.
Geoffrey wrote:
>Jesse M. Holmes wrote:
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>>What about processing speed? I have a 1.8Ghz here at home. That means it
>>should be twice as fast a 900Mhz processor,
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>Twice the Mhz, does not translate to twice as fast.
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