because you've been poisoned by the millions of dollars intel put into its marketing and making sure they boasted clock speed, well, clock speed really means nothing anymore. Intel's NetBurst architecture they designed was meant for raw speed, only. P4s have extremely long, cache and bandwidth starved pipelines, that really don't help it at all. Thats why Celerons at 2.8 GHz, based off the same architecture as a 2.8 GHz Northwood P4 but with half the cache, can't even outperform a Duron at 1.8 GHz, or a P4 at 1.8 GHz for that matter, even the Athlon XP 1600+ i have sitting in my old rig my sister now uses. Its why the Pentium M (AKA Centrino) at only like 1.8 GHz can kill a 2.4 GHz Pentium 4-M or plain Pentium 4, because its based off the mature, yet more efficent P6 architecture Intel introduced with the Pentium Pro, and used with the PIIs and PIII, the same PIIIs that could kill a P4 running at 1.8 GHz when they only run at 1.4. Thats why AMD began using model numbers 2800+, 3000+, 3200+............. for naming their processors, because the clock speed wasn't the important factor anymore, the Athlon 64 has an on-die memory controller and a shorter pipeline that doesn't heavily rely on memory bandwidth or cache (its why the Athlon FX-51 and Athlon 64 3400+ [S754 single-channel] were neck and neck, and why the Newcastle core Athlon 64s with half the cache but a higher clockspeed perform equally to their Clawhammer counterparts). Intel has now adopted a model number scheme similar to AMDs, just like they now use a "similar" 64-bit implementation in their new Xeons, just look at my title under my avatar, it'll explain everything.
This thread really has no meaning, just like that one Gamecube Sucks! thread a while back, someone /close it.
