Whats Fastest? Right, i've got the chance of a new PC at work, currently on a ( i think ) a P4 3ghz dual processor (prescott i think) OR now i can get AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ / 2.2 GHz ( Dual-Core ) raymond?
4200+ Although.. it could also depend upon bus speed and cache. I'd still say the 4200+ though.. iirc prescotts are horrible chips.. Edit.. never noticed the raymond bit
You didn't mention that as an option :tut: The Core 2 Duo chips.. especially conroe based ones.. are insanely fast.. Make sure you get a E6600 or above.. 4MB cache is a must imo! I will be purchasing a kentsfield in 2008.. depending upon how the intel/amd roadmaps play out..
it's not an option at the moment, but maybe in the next few months - the joys of all new equipment coming thru me first
My macbook (running vista) has a c2d 2.0ghz with 4mb cache - its really really quick until it runs out of ram (1GB) which it does very quickly unfortunately ... I usually run outlook 2007, visual studio 2005, and then virtual pc 2007 with a winXP installation and visual studio 2003 in that ... Im always getting 'out of memory' warnings with that Seems like these days, unless your running games its all pretty much of a muchness ... with ram being the big issue?
processor speed/size advances has really slowed down recently, compared to how it was 5 or so years ago - it's all now down to storage, RAM, cache, HD data rates etc.
