Originally posted by: nserra
You are all crazy.
Who says Mhz doesn't matter is a moron. It does matter!!!
What you can?t do is to compare two different Processors at the same Mhz level. It?s not right. AMD64 vs AMD XP vs PentiumM vs Pentium4 at 2.0Ghz is it right?
And now Pentium4 3.2Ghz vs Pentium4 3.8, the 3.2 is faster at what? The only possibility of a slower Ghz be faster than the higher one is at the board level (Single channel, dual channel, ?)
the prescott at the lower 2.8-3.2ghz range is often times slower then nortwood by more then 1%...the fact is a faster cpu can be slower at the cpu architecture level...It has to do with the 31 stage pipeline of the prescott versus the 22 stage pipeline of the northwood. ...Another example where the pipelibne (longer reversed progress was when P4 first migrated from the P3 1.1ghz to the P4 1.3-1.4ghz willamettes.....The pipeline I believed was doubled....The newer Dothan chips are like going back to that shorter pipeline and look at how a 2.0ghz Dothan wipes the florr with chips 1ghz plus more in speed....relook at your argument...
I may have interpreted what you were saying wrong, and if I did apologize...