What is the difference between 1.8GHz and 2GHz

Question

I can't find anywhere that explains the difference. Is the 1.8 ok for the average person that might play a few games? What would be the prox. difference in price?

UMassRob · Answer

I agree!

The 2.0 is way more expensive than the 1.8 and not worth it. Spend the extra money on either: more memory, better monitor/speakers, or video card.

- Rob -

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Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card
Altec Lansing ADA885 THX speakers
Samsung 16X DVD-ROM
NEC 16x/8x/40x CD-RW
Dell P991 monitor
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256 MB SDRAM
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cde3cvr · Answer

You would not be able to see any difference for the average computer user. Save your money and go with the 1.8ghz chip. You would see more system speed improvement if you load up the RAM rather than go for the faster chip.

Just my opinion though.

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40gb Western Digital Ultra ATA/100 hard drive
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SB Live! digital soundcard with 1024 voices
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HP Scanjet 5470Cxi
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Carol Sue · Answer

Thanks guys for the fast response. Ordered a new system yesterday for my son & family and was just having second thoughts on whether or not I should have gotten the 2 instead of the 1.8. So now I can stop worrying about it.

PcGrafix · Answer

I agree totally with cde3cvr, 1.8 and 2.0 isn't enough to notice,
The Ram however will make a difference, I picked 1.3 over 1.4 just to save money on the price of the computer, Because I knew I wanted a lot of Ram instead. So if you were looking for a second opinion, I Agree

PcGrafix

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SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-616 SCSI CdRom

NEC NR-7800A SCSI CDRW

NVIDIA 32MB GeForce2 MX with TV Out

3Com 3C920 Integrated Fast Ethernet

Creative SB Live!

Hewlett-Packard deskjet 840c

4 USB Ports

Windows 2000 PRO

RCA Cable Modem

HP Scanjet 3200c

Harmon/Kardon Speakers (Dell Stock)

Zone Alarm Pro & Norton Personnal Firewall

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Microsoft Office XP Full

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