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<blockquote data-quote="mynameis" data-source="post: 73665" data-attributes="member: 6607"><p>You can have a processor that has a lower clock speed but performs better or the same. Just look at Athlon 64 processors, they run at considerably lower clock speed but they are just as fast if not faster than a Pentium 4 of about the same price. It still depends on the application though, sometimes the Pentium 4 will be faster and sometimes the Athlon 64 will be faster, there is never a perfect multiplier you can use to say 2 processors are going to be equal, it might hold true for one test but i'll be off on just about every other. </p><p></p><p>What you want to do determines how you are going to perceive a CPU as being faster or not.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mynameis, post: 73665, member: 6607"] You can have a processor that has a lower clock speed but performs better or the same. Just look at Athlon 64 processors, they run at considerably lower clock speed but they are just as fast if not faster than a Pentium 4 of about the same price. It still depends on the application though, sometimes the Pentium 4 will be faster and sometimes the Athlon 64 will be faster, there is never a perfect multiplier you can use to say 2 processors are going to be equal, it might hold true for one test but i'll be off on just about every other. What you want to do determines how you are going to perceive a CPU as being faster or not. [/QUOTE]
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