Thread: Clock speed and Dual question.

I wonder why AMD Dual Athlon 3600 is much more expensive than AMD Sempron 3200 whereas the clock speed of the Sempron is 2.0 GHz and the clock speed of Dual Athlon is 1.9 GHz?

Some ebay sellers multiply any Dual processor by 2 to get the clock speed for example for the Dual Athlon 3200, they claim 3800GHz or 1.9*2. Are they right? Can I say that a Dual is actually 2 processors and not one?

two cpu are completely different at all sempron is a general usage cpu can be supposed as the starting grid of amd, x2 cpu's have 2 cores that ara working under same clock frequency and using same core architecture, which is making the difference at all

dual core provides you no lack of performance while working an antivirus application behind your game or burning a dvd while listening to music

every user works out programmes but send them to tray bar so seems like they are not using cpu or just a bit but not at all especially antivirus and firewall uses the most at all between them

if you are an office user i suggest you using a intel dual core mainstream cpu like d930 (3ghz) or amd x2 4200 (2.2ghz) because its lower price and performance is good enough for applications like autocad, office 2007 etc.

if you are a home user and playing games i can say conroe (core 2 duo) e6600 is enough for you