it took mine like 2 mins and 15 secs
^^is that the machine in your sig?
Pentium M 740 in a Dell Latitude D610, Dad's work laptop......this is a dell that i actually like!! the memory timings are 4-4-4-12, even though its only 512 MB of ram. 1.8 GHz Pentium M with 2mb of L2 Cache. 533MHz FSB.
SuperPi is only single threaded, so it doesn't matter how many cores you have.i don't get it, i upgraded from a sempron @ 1.8ghz(about 50-54 sec at the 1M) to a AMD Phenom Quad Core 2.2ghz 20-23sec... shouldn't it be less sec since its a quad core?? and does that mean the total is 2.2 ghz or each core is at 2.2 ghz
It will in certain tasks. Basically with a quad core it means you can do more CPU-intensive tasks at the same time without as much of a slow down. For instance you can be playing a game, while compressing files, while running a virus scan, etc. Also most games take advantage of at least having two cores, so it improves game performance.AWWW??? I bought it cause i thought WOW 4 cores each @2.2 my machine will fly like a raptor(jet).. then what does it mean??
While the Phenom is fairly new, Intel has had quad cores (better performing as well) for quite some time.what game uses the four quad cores cause the penom is MAD new CPU...
You could run a benchmarks such as PCMark or 3DMark.then how can I test the speed of the quad core for real compared to my sempron??