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7/18/09 at 2:00pm

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Cerberus

hurtz?

I thought it was Megahertz....

majorgeeks.com has me saying it that way

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It's pretty tough to explain better efficiency to people that have been out of the loop. How I did it was I just made her buy the Phenom II X3 720 anyway so she could see for herself how "weak" 2.8GHz was.

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Originally Posted by timw4mail

Really, I found the easiest way to explain it is to show Apple's Megahertz Myth video.

YouTube - The Megahertz Myth

What he didn't explain what the FSB was slow as heck on the G4 867

Gaming was seriously affected in a negative way on the G4
Edited by dlee7283 - 7/18/09 at 2:11pm

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7/18/09 at 2:36pm

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Quote:

Originally Posted by dlee7283

What he didn't explain what the FSB was slow as heck on the G4 867

Gaming was seriously affected in a negative way on the G4

In this case, though, it is largely irrelevant. Obviously HyperTransport/QPI is better than FSB, but really, you could just say that's because its faster.

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7/18/09 at 2:41pm

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here the Power PC is the best, heres apples own official megahertz it shows my MY 867 mhz power pc G4 outdoes a 1.7ghz pentium 4

YouTube - Apple - MHz myth

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7/18/09 at 2:44pm

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lol i should look before i post.

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