[H] Pentium 4-M 2.8GHz vs. Core 2 Duo 1.6GHz

[Robert Martin Jr.]

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

Re: [H] Pentium 4-M 2.8GHz vs. Core 2 Duo 1.6GHz

[Greg Sevart]

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...

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 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