> It makes sense to me that a VPS would only be getting > a part of the processing potential of whatever processor > it's running on...is the quad-core different? Could I be > getting an entire "core" to myself of the "quad"? > > Or is it not necessarily true that a slice of a quad core > beats a slice of a Pentium 4?
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