The 1.6GHz C2D is going to have double the processing power of the 2.8GHz P4M. Each core is roughly equal in performance, but you have two cores...
> -----Original Message----- > From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- > boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Robert Martin Jr. > Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 11:53 AM > To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com > Subject: [H] Pentium 4-M 2.8GHz vs. Core 2 Duo 1.6GHz > > I'm building a box that will be doing a wide variety of tasks. It will > be running 1-2 vmware OSes, capturing and converting video from analog > TV, running some home automation, and serving 4TB of video files > (eventually expanded to 8TB) to all the networked media players in the > house. > > I have 2 CPU's available that run fine on the MB. 1 is a Pentium 4-M > 2.80GHz CPU and I'm using an adapter so I can run it (s478) in a s775 > MB. I also have a Core 2 Duo 1.6 cpu that works on this board. I tried > a Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz cpu but it is not recognized and does not boot in > the system or that was my first choice. Since it is a specialty system, > I have been unable to find what the maximum CPU support is. It is a > Norco 7851F system. > > Any thoughts on why one would be better than the other? > > lopaka
