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MrNah

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I recently bought a AMD Phenom 9850 Quad-Core Processor 2.50 GHz and was wondering what the math is. For example 2.5 x 4? because its quad. Or is there a specific processor equation? I also have a AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+ 2.61 Ghz. Do the equations go for every processor or is there different equations for different brands? I'm curious because when someones asks for the speed of my computer I'd rather say a 10ghz processor. for bragging rights of course.

Hope someone can answer me!
 
No, you have 4 cores running at 2.5GHz. You can just run more tasks at once, it isn't equal to a faster single core.
 
Even though the CPU is quad, it's still 2.5GHz, though it has potenital equal to that of a 4 single-cores of identical architecture, or one single core running at 10GHz. By potential I mean that a program has to be programmed to support multiple cores, otherwise it can only use one at a time. Don't worry, you didn't waste your money, different tasks get to run on different cores and therefore if a program can't slow others down and you'll have EEXXTTREMELLY smooth computer. And you can also run virus-scan and other stuff on the background without slowing down your games and so on... MULTITASKING FTW!
 
chupacabra said:
swt gotta love the noobs, no, each core is separate, they don't count together as 10ghz >_>
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why're you always so condescending??

like hack said... it'd be most like running different programs on totally different machines (give or take a bit)... so if you have an AVG scan in the background, you'll be able to surf and IM and all that without issues... It's not going to be a 10ghz Athlon 64... but, for all intensive purposes you have 10ghz of power to use, but, (with the exception of a few programs) not one program uses all 10ghz.
 
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