Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="slashjunior" data-source="post: 355847" data-attributes="member: 23667">I am not sure whether I understand computers anymore. On my desktop PC I have a 1.3GHz AMD my fiances machine as a 3.2GHz Intel P4, when her machine only had 256MB of RAM hers was slower than mine which has 1GB of RAM. It is only since she upgraded hers to 1GB of RAM has hers become as fast as my PC.I do know that my MacBook with 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 1GB of RAM wipes the floor with both of the machines. I thought I had it figured out and thought the processor had little to do with speed of the machine. Looking at the numbers my fiances 3.2GHz should be quicker than 2GHz and why is my 1.3GHz AMD as fast as my fiances? The only thing I can think of is my PC has a Radeon 9800 graphics card, plus it has a good motherboard because I built the machine myself so only got the best components. I am looking to speed up my PC and was thinking of adding another 1GB of RAM, although now I am wondering if it would be better to get a quicker AMD processor instead?EDIT: I have been reading up on duos and the way I understand it is, it is 2 processors working simultaneously together or something along those lines making processing tasks a lot more efficient. I am very tempted to go for the AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200 AM2 2.2GHz, it is a good price, does performance compare to that of the Intel Core 2 Duo?</blockquote>

Verification: How many occurrences of a n-u-m-b-e-r between "d" and "f" in this example...(sdgs6ngklu3gd#f9%)?