amd athlon 64 3000+ test?

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I dont understand this so maybe you could shed some light on it.

Basicly i did a benchmark and stress test against 2 cpu's
Amd athlon 64 3000+ oc 2.3ghz
Against
Intel core 2 duo

Basicly out of the 6 tests i ran the amd single core ran faster than the core 2 duo, i dont understand since the duo should be the faster one with 2 cores.
The only difference being that the amd is overclocked. Still doest justify it having 1 core less.

To give you an example, i ran
a process test at a 5 min period.

Core 2 duo: 174 billion processes

Amd athlon 64 30000: 202 billion

How can this be?
 
it all depends on the testing software you used. Unless the software supports it, dual core processors can't fully utilize both the cores !! only one core at a time is running with good utilization while the other usually remains free !! So a single core processor with higher clock speed can actually give you better performance that a dual core with lesses clock speed.

@person above: actually any 32 bit machine will be able to reach only upto 4 GB of memory. 2^32 address lines. And some softwares may further shrink this mark.
 
What are the specs on the C2D?

If it's a single-threaded application, it would only use one of the C2D's cores, so if it has a low clock, then the 3000+ would beat it.
 
Did you know that if you had 6 gigs of RAM on Windows 32-bit Vista, it would only register as 3 gigs? Fun little fact for you.

Just because you have something does not mean it is being used. For example, 2 processing cores as opposed to 1 processing core.
 
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