E4500 = too?

[Bache]

I know a e4500 is dual core but,

Q1) if u had two identical PC's in all other aspects, ie. running programs and other hardware, except for CPU, what would the E4500 compare with (in gaming frame rates) with a single core P4?

I know some will say "u can't compare because of multiple reasons", etc, but u can because one of them "will produce" faster gameplay, in respect to frame rates.

Q) Would the E4500 "in general" be equiv to a eg. P4 4.5GHz - (a OC P4) or lower/higher?

Thanks,

 

[epsilon84]

It would generally be close to twice as fast as an equivalently clocked P4. So an E4500 would be close to a P4 4.5GHz, yes. This is single threaded gaming performance, though.

In multithreaded games, it will be even faster. It's hard to say how much, since most sites have stopped benching P4s for a while, but you're probably looking at the equivalent of a 'P4 6GHz' worth of multithreaded gaming performance, taking into account that P4s with HT are capable of some form of (limited) multithreading of their own.

 

[_visual]

And then there's the e4500's overlocking potential, increasing the gap further.