was your dealer giving you a Intel or an AMD processor?
An AMD 2500 will have similar or higher performance than a Intel pentium 4
2.4 GHZ processor,nearly equal to an intel P4 2.6 GHz.
Beause intel and AMD processors have different architecture,AMD processors run at lower clock speeds than intel ones but offer similar performances.so in order to make comparison simple they name their processors as 2000+,2500+,3000+ etc which tells that they have equivalent performance to intel's 2 GHZ, 2.4 GHZ and 3 GHZ processors.
i bet you that most dealers dont know whay the amd's processors are named likewise and hence he told you that it is a 2.6Ghz processor.If he had told you about an AMD processor then 1.4GHZ is the right clock speed for AMD 2500+.An AMD processor with a clock speed of 2.6ghz with be something like AMD Athlon(or sempron) 3500+ or higher.
P:S : an AMD athlon 64 bit 2500+ will be cheaper than a intel P4 2.6GHZ 64 bit by around 500-700 bucks.
Last edited by merve_extreme : 23rd July 2006 at 02:22.
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