[Solved] Difference between omtel pentium 4 ht 3.00 ghz and intel dual core 1.6

The pentium 4 3.0 HT is a single core (only one "brain" ) with HT (Hyperthreading)
which is a technology that allows the single core chip to process two threads at the
same time.
A thread is the basic part of a program.
so even though the Pentium 4 3.0 HT is a single core it can handle two programs at
the same time (though not the efficiently-at best it gives about a 20%-30% improvement)

Now the Pentium Dual Core 1.6 is actually two cores in one package
so it has two "brains"
it can actually process two programs at the same time with almost 100% efficiency

Their is a huge performance difference
the Pentium Dual Core 1.6 is much faster than the Pentium 4 3.0

dont let the speed or ghz of the chips fool you

a slower more efficient processor can easily out perform a "faster"
older inefficient chip

My Pentium D 3.4 was much slower than my Core2Duo 1.8 chip

Pentium D is a dual chip which uses two older Pentium 4 cores
they are okay for browsing and office work but are old technology
it was the tech before Core2Duo
After Core2Duo/Core2Quad
there is Core I3,I5,I7
which is the latest technology

I tried to keep that as simple as I can
trying to keep track of Intel CPUs is tough
alot of different names

There was Pentium 4 which is older
than there is Pentium Dual Core
and later they even made Pentium I3s

Pentium was a type of chip
and now Intel uses that as a way of naming
new chips (usually a little slower than the Core2Duo or I3s)