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Fogmeister
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Tom's Hardware benchmark test pitting the heavy weight 3.2 GHz Pentium 4 against the infantile 1.66GHz Atom D510. Watch the Pentium get destroyed! MWAHAHAHAHA! http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/atom-d510 ... 31948.htmlVery interesting. I wonder if the company I work for realise they are buying and shipping out obsolete and defunct hardware to our branches? I'm currently using a 3.2GHz PC with 3.25GB (don't ask) of RAM and an 80GB HDD. I could spec a brand new machine for under £100 that would out perform every computer in the company and would reduce the leccy bill by a hell of a lot.
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okenobi
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Switching out any P4 for just about ANY other CPU will save you a fortune in juice and be quicker. It's possibly the crappest thing produced by Intel, maybe ever.
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veato
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 | | | | Fogmeister wrote: Tom's Hardware benchmark test pitting the heavy weight 3.2 GHz Pentium 4 against the infantile 1.66GHz Atom D510. Watch the Pentium get destroyed! MWAHAHAHAHA! http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/atom-d510 ... 31948.htmlVery interesting. I wonder if the company I work for realise they are buying and shipping out obsolete and defunct hardware to our branches? I'm currently using a 3.2GHz PC with 3.25GB (don't ask) of RAM and an 80GB HDD. I could spec a brand new machine for under £100 that would out perform every computer in the company and would reduce the leccy bill by a hell of a lot. | | | | |
To be fair I'm not suprised the Atom Dxxx beats an old P4 in some tasks. It's Core architecture and dual core. _________________Twitter Blogflickr
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Fogmeister
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Well I definitely knew that a new generation xGHz processor would always out perform an xGHz previous gen processor.
But, for a 1.6GHz processor to destroy (in most cases) a processor that is over twice the speed still surprised me.
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Bluespider
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Ah but.... whatever you save in electricity with the new processors will need to be spent heating the place 
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Fogmeister
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JJW009
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With caveats. In the summer, most offices need cooling rather than heating. Every extra watt used by the computers takes an additional 2 or 3 to remove the waste heat. In the winter, many places are heated by gas or other forms of power which are far more efficient. But if your only source of heat is an electric fire and you live somewhere cold all year, then yep. True. _________________jonbwfc's law: "In any forum thread someone will, no matter what the subject, mention Firefly." When you're feeling too silly for x404, youRwired.net
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Bluespider
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To be fair, I think my answer was funnier... I may be biased though 
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Fogmeister
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On a scale of factual to funny...
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bally199
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They had to use a Northwood architecture P4, didn't they  _________________ Kimmotalk is where all the cool people hang.
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Linux_User
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They tried a Prescott but it melted the office.
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veato
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Remember the Pentium D. That was sh*t hot.
Oh no, that's not right. It was sh*t AND hot.
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