my thought was that pdcs were just two p4 slapped on one chip while the core2duo and core2quad chips were invented as dual/quad core cpus from the start. oh well, i guess i was wrong...however, is there a realworld (non-gaming) performance difference between the two, even though the c2d beats the pdc in every benchmark? is my single-channel ram what makes my core2duo system so slow? it does seem awfully slow, would you have an idea why?
core2duo e6600 2.4 oc to 2.6ghz
1gb ddr2-4200 ram (512x2) liimited by mobo which has only a singlechannel controller
wd 250gb sata hard drive
geforce 6800 512mb pci-e
that computer was SOOOOO slow in everything, even opening firefox, right from the time in installed xp home, its ridiculous...why?