Need some advice on a Intel CPU

a pentium 2.4 = half a core 2 duo ( 2 cores) at 1.5-1.8 i am guessing

so a core 2 duo 1.8 which runs 2.8 = @2.8ghz = p4 @ 4ghz x 2 cores or 2 p4's.

a core 2 2.4ghz stock with 2 cores is a going handle about 3 times the load but since it has 2 cores it can due in better way. your game can run on 1 core while os and background programs run on core 2

this is a poor explanation so someone post a better one

IFB (amti is always #2)

Basically Mhz/Ghz is not the indicator now.
The best way is to check a benchmark test.
Processors now have better internal archetechture(sp) than before.
So per Mhz/Ghz you get more information processed.
I could go more into this but I think linking you to a benchmark would be best.

Here is the toms chart

http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu. [...] &chart=167

That is an excellent and very popular CPU.

I'm going to do this in clear, concise English:

The old Netburst architecture (Pentium 4s and Pentium Ds and their Celeron and server counterparts) are/were very inefficient per clock cycle, thus they had to run at high clock speeds to give decent performance. The Athlon64 and X2s and those based off that architecture are significantly more efficient (could do more work per Mhz or Ghz), achieving more work per clock cycle. Intel has since released their new core architecture, Core 2 Duo, which performs even better per clock cycle than the Athlon64s/X2s, and thus giving dramatically higher performance in CPU-intensive applications in comparison to what a P4 could do.

A very simple, general and in some benchmarks inaccurate way to look at it is to look at the clock speed of a new Core 2 Duo processor. You would have to have double the clock speed of a a P4 to achieve the same performance of that Core 2 Duo.

Hope that helps clarify a tad more.

since hes happy i am off to go buy something

I got lost, what post was crap??