[ale] OT: AMD Athlon 64

[Jeff Hubbs]

By the time the CPU clock speed has doubled, other things will have 
likely changed, not the least of which being the chipset and the speed 
of the RAM.  To the extent to which that is NOT the case, a CPU speed 
doubling will have started to get choked by surrounding mechanisms whose 
speed hasn't kept pace.  So, you can wind up *faster* than twice-as-fast 
or *slower*.  Test, test, test with the load you plan to run.



Geoffrey wrote:

>Jesse M. Holmes wrote:
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>>What about processing speed? I have a 1.8Ghz here at home. That means it
>>should be twice as fast a 900Mhz processor, 
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>Twice the Mhz, does not translate to twice as fast.
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