General help needed

[Leeky1975]

This is my first post here - although I have been reading the site for about 2 months now.

For a complete noob here can some explain the difference between a 3.6ghz Intel 4 with ht tech and 1mb cache and a 3.4ghz EE with a 2mb level cache?

Would it be worth waiting until an increased ghz ee chip becomes available?

Also will the Intel D925CV motherboard take increased mhz ddr 2 when that comes out?

I know these questions will probably seem simple to you guys but I was really flamed when I bought a Dell two years ago and I want to learn from my mistakes.

Sorry for the double post.

Any help would be appreciated, you can get me on martynleek@msn.com

Thanks in advance

 

[Nickel020]

Welcome to the forums!

The increased cache makes the EE faster even though it's 200MHz less. CPU performance does not only depend on clockspeed but also on the cache pipeline-length and many other factors.
I suggest you read some reviews of the parts you have questions about. Your questions should be answered in there. Btw, you're at the right place for quality reviews.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

p4 has a long pipeline prescott has about 31 stages to it.....amds 64 only has 12 stages, with a longer pipeline its possible then to ramp the clockspeeds up. as a bigger pipekine leads to more stalls, and cache misses

this is why a big cache is present on the pentiums, that long pipeline needs filling to be efficient so the 2mb cache is there to fill it.....cache has less of an impact on A64....less cache misses and stalls