Gary Heston rambled on in alt.sci.seti:

In article <Xns963CF00115C3Epraythechurchcom@Letuspray>,
Black Baptist  <pray@the.church.com> wrote:

I have to computers pc1=duron 1.3 ghz with 1 gig of ram pc2=intel 2.6 ghz 
with 512 megs of ram it took pc1 22 hrs to complete a unit and pc2 18 hrs 

to 

complete a unit. Shouldn't pc2 do a unit twice as fast as pc1? 

Depends upon more than just clock speed. Is the 2.6 a Celeron, while the
1.3 is a true P4 (or even a P3, which outperformed the equal-clock-rate
P4 chips)? How much L2 cache is in each system? What motherboards are in
the systems? Cheap motherboads can run 30-40% slower than a good one with
identical CPUs in the. Memory type/speed and FSB also affect performance.


Gary

PC1: AMD Duron 1.3 ghz L2 64, 1 gig pc2100 ddr sdram specktec ram motherboard 
Biostar M7VIG Pro FSB 133 PC2: Intel Motherboard FSB 233 Cpu Intel 2.6 GHZ 
512 pc2100 megs of pc2100 ddr sdram specktec ram.