Quote Originally Posted by Zucker2k View Post
@ Gosh, read Accord99's post and stop running processor intensive applications while trying to do anything else on an obviously choked laptop. At best stop comparing a dualcore to a quadcore; please do me a favor and stop that. It's retarded - 4 threads will always trump two threads when executing more than two threads simultaneously; especially if clocks are about the same. Why I'm I even having to say this?
You don't but the price for the C2D is higher compared to the phenom. And I don't think it is the CPU that is the problem, it is the comunication with other hardware and there the C2D and C2Q is the same, in fact the C2Q could be worse regarding comunication because the FSB needs to handle comunication between the two glued C2D.

I did a simple performance test application some time ago. Doing some tests there and I noticed that the problems was when you flood data in the fsb, if you do that then the computer will get these stops. If you only spins the processor then the threadswitching works ok.