1.8 Ghz

[CoD2man]

Is a Athalon 64 3000 really 1.8 GHZ? Doesn't that suck?

 

[Half Evil]

Um. yes and no. its not a multitasking processer, but its nice to have for gaming, and better when you Oc it.

 

[catalyst1]

Its clock speed is 1.8GHz. The amount of data it can process is roughly equivalent to a Pentium 3.0GHz. AMD has always had slower clock speeds, but their processors work harder. So hard in fact that they run much better than Pentiums of similar price.

 

[alvino]

The clock speed may be 1.8ghz, but it does more instructions per clock than Pentium processors do.

 

[macbook]

basically in the books the athlon is slower, but in reality it is faster.

 

[MeTzenAs1]

you can't compare amd and intel clock speeds thats like apple's and oranges.. Its better to look at the 3000+ numbers and compare that to the 3.0g intel.

 

[CoD2man]

ahh...thanks so much, because right now i'm debating on whether to get an AMD or an Intel. I think I've just picked AMD

 

[acphenom]

No, it doesn't suck...for an AMD. My Athlon 64 2800+ is 1.8GHz and it's great. It can multi-task fine, and is very fast at booting, loading programs etc. so there's nothing wrong with it.