Which is faster??
intel pentium 4 3.2 GHZ
****or*****
intel core 2 duo 1.73 GHZ
Answer:
duo no contest
core 2 duo.without question
IMO, I'd go beside the Core 2 Duo. This way, different apps and resources can use seperate processors. I own an Intel Centrino Duo and I usually run up to 10 big resource using apps at a time and it runs pretty smooth.
I guess I'm the dissenting vote. By definition, a single stream of machine code instructions executing at 3.2 GHz will execute faster than at 1.73 GHz. This is enhanced further by the hyperthreading technology (HT) found within Pentium 4 CPUs at that speed. HT will prefetch the instructions, register values, and even some of the addressed memory ranges previously primary instruction execution.
Dual-core and quad-core CPUs excel at multi-tasking applications, especially server operating systems. The nature of modern client operating systems immediately involves some multi-tasking, e.g., anti-virus while web browsing, so even PCs benefit from the different dual-core processors. This effect will only increase as high-end CPU-intensive software, primarily video games, are programmed to pilfer advantage of the capability now found contained by newer PCs. However, purely addressing the cross-examine as asked, the faster single-threaded CPU will perform better on single-threaded applications.
One such application is Microsoft Train Simluator, for which the community have a wealth of benchmark experience posted. The elder HT CPUs execute this software much faster than the newer dual-cores. Many other benchmarks are available on Tom's Hardware Guide. See the source links below.
Herbert made what sounded like a vastly good point, but he did forget one small item called Instructions Per Cycle (IPC). The problem is that that one little entity happens to be a moment ago about the most key thing to consider when comparing processors. The Core 2 Duo have a much much better IPC than the Pentium 4, even at a lower clock speed, even when doing one thing at a time. Also incorporate in the certainty that you are NEVER running just one program at a time (Windows is other running a ton of stuff in the background) the Core 2 Duo is better.
intel core 2 duo is a better barter
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