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Which CPU is faster?

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Vithar

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This may sound silly but which CPU is faster a Pentium 4 Extreme 3.73 or a single core of the i7 2700K?
Basically lets assume its running a single threaded application (one that can only utilize one CPU core) and there are no other applications running, would the i7 still be faster? And by how much (percentage wise)
 
The i7 will still kick the Pentium 4 EE's ass. I don't know how much percentage wise, but it would be considerable.
 
Seeing as a 2.0ghz Conroe whoops the P4EE, I'd be willing to bet atleast 50% faster. Netburst blew ass man.
 
Well, considering an i7 2700K can turbo up to 3.9Ghz stock, it would absolutely SMOKE the p4, at least 50% faster.
 
You still have 8MB cache with i7 and redesigned architecture, so I assume it would be at least 50% faster.
 
The single core of the Intel® Core™ i7-2700K. Heck I was outperforming the fastest of the Intel NetBurst processors (Intel Pentium® D Extreme Edition 965 3.73GHz) with an Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 2.13GHz. Today 2nd generation Intel Core processors are around 30% faster than an Intel Core 2 Duo at the same speed. Heck I would take an Intel Pentium G620 2.60GHz over that old Intel Pentium Extreme Edition processor.
 
IntelEnthusiast said:
The single core of the Intel® Core™ i7-2700K. Heck I was outperforming the fastest of the Intel NetBurst processors (Intel Pentium® D Extreme Edition 965 3.73GHz) with an Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 2.13GHz. Today 2nd generation Intel Core processors are around 30% faster than an Intel Core 2 Duo at the same speed. Heck I would take an Intel Pentium G620 2.60GHz over that old Intel Pentium Extreme Edition processor.
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I would take the SB Celeron dual core over the P-EE! :D
 
I bet even the single core Celeron G440 is faster than P4 extreme, it just shows how fast the SB really is compared to anything older.
 
Yea, I happened to pull out an old desktop the other day with a P4 in it that I believe was clocked ~3.5. Just wow, made me really appreciate how the cores have been optimized over the years.
 
It really depends on what you do with it. We sell hundreds of refurbished PCs with P4s in them. they work great with a gig of ram and XP. Just don't expect to play games on them. They're strictly internet PCs.
 
To be fair, even some sites online don't play too nicely on an old p4. I can think of a couple things in flash in particular that are not suited to it.
 
Jorona said:
It really depends on what you do with it. We sell hundreds of refurbished PCs with P4s in them. they work great with a gig of ram and XP. Just don't expect to play games on them. They're strictly internet PCs.
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"Great" is obviously subjective.
 
Jorona said:
It really depends on what you do with it. We sell hundreds of refurbished PCs with P4s in them. they work great with a gig of ram and XP. Just don't expect to play games on them. They're strictly internet PCs.
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I'm not sure I really agree with that. Even windows update checking for updates in the background is enough to bog down a single-core P4. Disabling automatic updates is obviously not a good idea either. Users installing updates manually is a fantasy. That doesn't leave many good options.
 
GotNoRice said:
I'm not sure I really agree with that. Even windows update checking for updates in the background is enough to bog down a single-core P4. Disabling automatic updates is obviously not a good idea either. Users installing updates manually is a fantasy. That doesn't leave many good options.
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Windows updates are making some HDD and CPU load but computer still remains usable for office work. Although they are sold with pre installed XP and there are no longer any periods where XP gets updates on regular base, so if they install all the updates when installing the OS, the user wont be bothered much about those 1-3 small security/MSE updates per few months.
 
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