What is the speed of your computer’s CPU?

[sweater]

I was wondering what you are using in your pc…me I uses Pentium 4 2.4 GHz. ::) 8)

[Alphalutra1]

Pentium 4 3.2ghz HT 8)

Alphalutra1

[TonyW]

Mine is 1.7GHz.

[nadirah]

Pentium 4 2.6GHZ

[sukarof]

Athlon 64 2400+ (2Ghz)

[LIW]

AMD 64 3000+ (1.8Ghz)

[dog]

Athlon 64 3800+ / P4. 2.4 / P4 2.66

[MikeBCda]

Celeron 2.2 Ghz -- not exactly top of the line these days, but good enough that online connection speed (dialup) is by far the major bottleneck for nearly anything I do.

[Triple Helix]

P4 2.6Ghz

[GUI_Tex]

Standard..
Amd athlon xp 2800+ 2.4 Ghz

[FastGame]

A64 3400 OC'd to 2.64 Ghz

[EASTER.2010]

WoW am i ever behind times. It's not going stay that way though once Spring finally gets here.

AMD (Duron) 1250 5% OC

[WSFuser]

Athlon 64 3200+ OC'd to 2.55GHz

[divedog]

AMD 64 4400x2 @ 2.2ghz

[Carver]

AMD Athlon 2200+ 1800 MHz

[JRCATES]

Pentium 4, 3.0GHz Hyper Threading

[jvillas]

PentiumD dual 2.80ghz

[sosaiso]

I bring forth the museum exhibit that is my computer:

Celeron. 1.2 Ghz.

[pvsurfer]

Speed? - it's an i8086 (really)! :isay:

[herbalist]

If the 1.2 ghz Celeron is a museum piece, mine must be prehistoric. Pentium 2, 366mhz.

[Slovak]

Well at least there are still some of us below 1.5Ghz :o

[Eldar]

P4 2.6 Ghz :)

[YeOldeStonecat]

Main gaming rig....Pentium 4 3.0C running at 3.3
Another rig...Pentium 4 2.8C running at 3.38
SBS2K3 server at home....dual 1.0 P3 running at 1.12
Laptop, Pentium M 1.2
Two AMD Palomino 1900+ rigs

[Dazza]

AMD XP-M2500 @ 2.6 Ghz

[Firecat]

What about AMD processors? Should I vote for those at their actual speeds or should I vote according to the PR rating (like 3000+=3GHz) ???

[WSFuser]

actual speed

[rdsu]

Pentium Centrino 1.7GHz ~= Pentium 2.4GHz

[Mele20]

Pentium 4 3.8GhZ Hyperthreading (chosen over the DRM enabled PentiumD dual core processor on a new computer)

[crofttk]

P4 3.2 GHz HT (Northwood) crammed into a Dell Optiplex GX-260 on a Powerleap adapter.

[chrisretusn]

1) Intel Pentium 100 Mhz
2) Intel Pentium II, 400 MHz
3) Athlon XP2000+ 1.67 GHz

[ErikAlbert]

AMD Athlon 4400+ 64Bit X2 Dual-Core Processor

[Detox]

AMD 3200+

I voted the 3100+... I think that using actual cycle speed of the AMD chips (obviously thus not taking performance capabilities per cycle into account) will cause your overall results to be skewed toward a lower performance than what is really being experienced by the voting crowd.

[mercurie]

Less then 1.5, but I have two machines. I voted the oldest slower one, which is my machine not the family one.

Family one is 2.6. You can tell the difference for sure, but it is not as bad as you would think. Mine also has half the RAM 256.

Both machines are used in a similar manner so the comparison is good one.

Mine serves my needs. Will upgrade after Vista is out for a while.

[N1ckR]

866mhz P3 and a 1.3ghz Athlon Thunderbird.

[Pieter_Arntz]

{QUOTE-> Pentium 4, 3.0GHz Hyper Threading <-QUOTE}

Chalk me up for one of those too.

[Peter2150]

Desktop P4 3.0g Hyperthread
Laptop P4 3.4g Hyperthread (anyone care to guess my run time on a battery);D

[N1ckR]

{QUOTE-> Desktop P4 3.0g Hyperthread
Laptop P4 3.4g Hyperthread (anyone care to guess my run time on a battery);D <-QUOTE}

Dunno 20mins flat out ? , bet it gets pretty warm, one execution unit for each hand :D

[Peter2150]

{QUOTE-> Dunno 20mins flat out ? , bet it gets pretty warm, one execution unit for each hand :D <-QUOTE}

ROFL. Well under normal usage it will actually go almost 50 minutes. You are right about the heat. I refer to it as my alternate space heater. But it is a screaming machine when plugged in.

[Osaban]

AMD 2800+ Desktop
Pentium M 1.6 laptop

[sweater]

{QUOTE-> If the 1.2 ghz Celeron is a museum piece, mine must be prehistoric. Pentium 2, 366mhz. <-QUOTE}

Are you serious? :o You still uses prehistoric pc's? :wacko: ??? Maybe, Stephen Speilberg will be very interested bout it, your pc could be found in the Jurassic Park fossil stones..;D (just kidding..:D )

Just curious...::) ..Why is it that still you did not upgrade your pc into Pentium 4? ??? :dry:

Sentimental value? ;D

[C.S.J]

{QUOTE-> What about AMD processors? Should I vote for those at their actual speeds or should I vote according to the PR rating (like 3000+=3GHz) ??? <-QUOTE}

i wasnt sure what to vote, so i didnt.

mine is an AMD Turion Dual Core 1.8ghz Mobile Technology one, i dont know what it runs at, but it nearly doubled the score of my P4 3ghz pc on a cpu test.

[Ice_Czar]

{QUOTE-> i wasnt sure what to vote, so i didnt.
<-QUOTE}

same here ;)


because of course raw speed has rightly been dethroned as the definitive metric for performance. Theres the number of cores or processors, the architecture of how much work actually gets done per clock cycle, ect.

2 x 1.8GHz Opterons

[Notok]

At this point, it would probably be better to list by generation than clock speed. The latest Intel processors, and AMD processors for quite a while now, are less about clock speed than overall efficiency (as Ice_Czar noted). My Core 2 Duo E6600 runs at 2.4 Ghz, but it's much much faster than previous generation 2.4 Ghz processors. My AMD X2 4400+ Toledo, running at 2.21 Ghz, is at least a little easier to quantify. Granted this is a pretty old thread/poll.. perhaps a new one should be started, might make a good comparison :)

[Peter2150]

{QUOTE-> At this point, it would probably be better to list by generation than clock speed. The latest Intel processors, and AMD processors for quite a while now, are less about clock speed than overall efficiency (as Ice_Czar noted). My Core 2 Duo E6600 runs at 2.4 Ghz, but it's much much faster than previous generation 2.4 Ghz processors. My AMD X2 4400+ Toledo, running at 2.21 Ghz, is at least a little easier to quantify. Granted this is a pretty old thread/poll.. perhaps a new one should be started, might make a good comparison :) <-QUOTE}

I agree. I have two new machines.

1 - AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 2.8 MHZ
2- Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 Dual 2.93mhz cores.

[bigc73542]

AMD Sempron 64 3200+

[Mrkvonic]

Hello,
Best ones AMD 64 3700+ and 3800.
Mrk

[cprtech]

P4 1,700,000,000 Hz :)

[Arup]

Core2Duo E6700.

[DVD+R]

Bugger me, phone rang and I forgot what I was replying to now :blink: "Oh Yeh" CPU stuff :P Erm anyway 3600E P4 3.62Ghz :)

[pipester]

Intel Pentium 4 2.0 Ghz

[farmerlee]

Intel core duo 1.8ghz on one laptop.
Intel Pentium M 1ghz (ULV) on my other laptop.

[denis]

Processor : Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 2400 MHz

[ThunderZ]

See signature which excludes the Wifes PC. She is running an Opteron 940. The exact specs. fail me right now. ::)

Edit:Opteron 940 = 1.4GHz. Soon to be upgraded to at least a 2.0GHz 940.

[wilbertnl]

AMD Sempron 2300+

[ccsito]

I go at subpar speed. :gack:

1.4 Ghz, 380 Mhz, 333 Mhz, and 66 Mhz.

[herbalist]

{QUOTE-> Are you serious? You still uses prehistoric pc's?.....Just curious... ..Why is it that still you did not upgrade your pc into Pentium 4?
Sentimental value? <-QUOTE}
Never saw your question. I'd have to upgrade everything to do any substantial processor upgrade. My box is a Pavilion 4463 that came with 98. I've upgraded a few things, a CDRW, 160mb RAM, new ethernet and USB cards, a 2nd internal drive and an 80GB external. I'm pretty sure that my motherboard won't handle more than a 500mhz processor.

I haven't found a good reason to upgrade further. I'm not a gamer. I don't do anything with video or high power graphics. Take those 2 out and most everything else doesn't require that much processor speed. Besides, I run several apps that claim to need a minimum processor of 550mhz. They run fine with my 366mhz. This old box runs much faster than you'd expect for one with its specs.

PCs are backwards in this regard when compared to most everything else. For most practical purposes, low power units work fine. But to be a good playtoy, they need high speed processors, lots of RAM, and high power graphics. Lousy toys can be good tools, but not vice versa. What's wrong with this picture?

Sure, I'd like to have something newer. I can't honestly say I need it, and right now, I have too many other things that take priority and cost much more. I'll eventually upgrade, probably when this old hardware dies.
Rick

[Peter2150]

{QUOTE-> Never saw your question. I'd have to upgrade everything to do any substantial processor upgrade. My box is a Pavilion 4463 that came with 98. I've upgraded a few things, a CDRW, 160mb RAM, new ethernet and USB cards, a 2nd internal drive and an 80GB external. I'm pretty sure that my motherboard won't handle more than a 500mhz processor.

I haven't found a good reason to upgrade further. I'm not a gamer. I don't do anything with video or high power graphics. Take those 2 out and most everything else doesn't require that much processor speed. Besides, I run several apps that claim to need a minimum processor of 550mhz. They run fine with my 366mhz. This old box runs much faster than you'd expect for one with its specs.

PCs are backwards in this regard when compared to most everything else. For most practical purposes, low power units work fine. But to be a good playtoy, they need high speed processors, lots of RAM, and high power graphics. Lousy toys can be good tools, but not vice versa. What's wrong with this picture?

Sure, I'd like to have something newer. I can't honestly say I need it, and right now, I have too many other things that take priority and cost much more. I'll eventually upgrade, probably when this old hardware dies.
Rick <-QUOTE}

Hi Rick

You know up till recently I'd have agreed with you, but.... I now have two high end box's that fall into the gamer/toy category. I had reasons for doing this, but didn't expect I'd see any impact in my business use. Turns out, I was totally wrong. For some things no, not much difference, but there are a significant number of places where I am seeing a tremendous, and totally unexpected difference.

It turns out these "toys" do in fact also make significantly better tools. I was totally and pleasantly surprised.

Pete

[herbalist]

I'd imagine office suites are one such instance. Open Office.org does start slow on mine, but that's about it for the apps I use. Some of the more cluttered web pages can get slow but I seldom notice it as Proxomitron blocks most of that junk. Everything else seems comparable to more modern units I service, at least for what I do. What besides gaming and video apps did you see a big difference with?
Rick

[EASTER.2010]

My workhorse is an AMD Duron 1250GHZ and another box at an anemic 399 MHZ that believe it or not does remarkably well with a meager 198 Mb memory with XP Pro, don't know how i pulled that off because it's better off with a 98SE system IMO, but hey it performs a bit lag but does well enough to encourage me to add a high end CPU when i can get a chance at it this spring.

[Peter2150]

{QUOTE-> I'd imagine office suites are one such instance. Open Office.org does start slow on mine, but that's about it for the apps I use. Some of the more cluttered web pages can get slow but I seldom notice it as Proxomitron blocks most of that junk. Everything else seems comparable to more modern units I service, at least for what I do. What besides gaming and video apps did you see a big difference with?
Rick <-QUOTE}

I use all of the MS Office suite, and use it interfacing with Quickbooks, and some of the Scansoft/Nuance products like Paperport.

If all I do is change something in a spreadsheet, no I don't see any difference, but when I am invoiceing, and I have to move quickly and have all the software open, working back and forth, there I do see a big difference. As I said, it was a surpise to me.

Pete

PS in your situation, you probably wouldn't notice it.

[toasale]

Two units:

DuoCore 1.66mhz 533, 768mb DDR2 PC4200 - using XP Pro SP2 on Dell Latitude

PIII 866mhz 133, 768mb Sdram - using Win2K SP4/Rollup on desktop

::) :o :P

[farmerlee]

{QUOTE-> My workhorse is an AMD Duron 1250GHZ and another box at an anemic 399 MHZ that believe it or not does remarkably well with a meager 198 Mb memory with XP Pro, don't know how i pulled that off because it's better off with a 98SE system IMO, but hey it performs a bit lag but does well enough to encourage me to add a high end CPU when i can get a chance at it this spring. <-QUOTE}
I used to have an old pentium II 266mhz computer with 64mb of ram running windows xp lol. Talk about lag and hdd thrashing.

[HiTech_boy]

At home the whole family we have 3 computers -> two are below 1.5 Ghz , one is 1.7 Ghz :)

At the office all are below 1.5 Ghz (unfortunately) , but I am happy ;D

[Hyperion]

AMD Athlon 939 X2 3800+ (Toledo Core)

Will also assemble soon another with my older Athlon 939 3200+ Venice core.

[N1ckR]

I found it far more productive to have 2 older machines that the sum of both ram/cpu does'nt add up to the single machine they replaced.

[Roger_]

A year ago, upgraded from an Intel Pentium IV 1.7 Ghz CPU to a Celeron D 2.93 Ghz @ 3.65 Ghz

Really need some power for photo editing... though my mobo would still take anything up to a Pentium IV 3.2Ghz HT Prescott, my purse would not :(

[nigglesnush85]

P4 2.8

[cthorpe]

866mhz here

[hartoch]

p4 2.4ghz ???

bazza

[EASTER.2010]

AMD Duron 1250Mhz (overclocked) RAM=512 but will accept 1 GB. Dual Drives Maxtor 30Gb (Win XP Pro) + Quantum Fireball 30Gb (Windows 98SE)
PCchips MB Model 810L, On-Board Memory/Video/Audio plus i plug in various PCI slots with Graphics Nvidia Card etc. from time to time.

Just got a 200 GB (Seagate) but waiting to customize new motherboard w/ new CPU when have time (and money) to do so; maybe this Spring/Summer

[Doc2626]

Pentium 2.9, running Win XP Pro, 1GB

[the mul]

Processor : Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 overclocked @ 2934 GHz DDR2 PC6400
2 GiG of Ram 800mhz.

The Mul ;D

[serador]

Pentium 4 3.4Ghz HT

[focus]

Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 3200 mhz

[19monty64]

Pentium 4/2.93Ghz

[Brian N]

AMD64 2 GHz (same as P4 3.2 GHz).

[Dr. Lucien Sanchez]

AMD Athlon 64 2Ghz
1Gb RAM

[ErikAlbert]

I have this one :
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Toledo (S939, 2x2.2GHz, 1MB, 400MHz Bus, 110W)

Designed for multi-tasking, which was my main motivation to buy it, along with RAM = 2048 MB.

I'm satisfied with its speed, it doesn't need to be faster, because I need also time to read the monitor.
All programs open in 1-3 seconds and I don't even feel it, when a scanner starts running, while I'm working with something else.

[lucas1985]

Agreed. Dual-core with 2 GB of RAM is the way to go.

[ashishtx]

My desktop- Intel core 2 duo E6600 2.4 ghz.
My laptop- Intel centrino mobile 750 1.86 ghz.

[jadinolf]

As of yesterday, I have all Celerons 2 3.2G. 1 1.7G and 1 2.66G

The Celerons suit my computing needs and my budget.

[YeOldeStonecat]

Time to update....1 year later
Was:
Main gaming rig....Pentium 4 3.0C running at 3.3
Another rig...Pentium 4 2.8C running at 3.38
SBS2K3 server at home....dual 1.0 P3 running at 1.12
Laptop, Pentium M 1.2
Two AMD Palomino 1900+ rigs

Now:
Main gaming rig...Core2Duo 6600 2.66GHz running at 3.25GHz
Secondary rig at home P4 3.0C at 3.3 running my SBS2K3 Server
One AMD Palomino 1900+ rig
Pentium 2.4 running linux router
Laptop upgraded to newer T41 Pentium M 1.6
Vista testbed rig Pentium Duo 2.8

[Niels]

AMD Athlon 64 3500+ +/- 2,20 Ghz

[Bruce99]

Core 2 Duo E6300 @ 1.8GHz

[Triple Helix]

Core 2 Duo T7600G @ 2.33 mhz overclockable Mobile CPU in my DELL XPS Notebook!


TH

[SYS 64738]

AMD Athlon X2 5000 AM2 (2 x 2.6 GHz).

[thezman]

@work p4 northy still 3.2 running at 3.97 on full water cooling for northy and cpu on a abit ic7max board

@home core 2 6400 running at 3.5 on water..

[DWEvans]

The Chip says that it is an Athlon 1.6 but I can only get 1.2 out of it. :'(

[luciddream]

Athlon 64 (X2) AM2 4600... 2.4 GHz

[Pieter_Arntz]

latest new computer:
P4 3.2GHz

[strangequark]

box 1 > core 2 duo E6700 2.67GHz
box 2 > P4 3.2 GHz

[shek]

home: laptop--p3 650, desktop---amd sempron 2500+ (1.4GHZ)

office: laptop---Core 2 Duo T7200 2GHZ

[hack3man]

AMD Athlon 64 FX-74(3GHz)
I like to have the ultimate processor.

[norman6810]

amd s 3000+
1.6G

[dNor]

Desktop: Core 2 Duo, 2.4GHz @ 2.63GHz
Laptop: Core 2 Duo 2.2GHz

[boonie]

E6850 OC'd to 3.60GHz with a Tuniq Tower

[computer geek]

Pentium D 805 2.67 Ghz

[TVH]

Pentium (R) 4 3GHz

[jpcummins]

Athlon 64 3500+ (2.20Ghz)

[Eagle Creek]

Desktop: Pentium IV 3.00 Ghz.
Laptop: AMD Athlon 1.8 Ghz.
Test PC: Intel Pentium Core 2 Duo 2,4 Ghz.