bit nooby, but IMPORTANT question!

[NovaSail]

Hi, im a young PC user and ive just created a Novatech forum account. Anyway, I recently advised someone on which PC to buy, so i told them to get the Icon Elite Pro. It seemed great for what they needed in a PC. The descirption on the site stated that it contained a 2x 2.2GHz AMD Athlon X2 4400 64 Bit dual core Processor, but it turned out that it only had a 2.3GHZ processor according to the system description. So i checked the processor specs on AMD site which confirmed it was 2.3 not 2X 2.2 which novatech claimed!!! Isn't 2 x 2.2 equivalent (or near enough) to a single core 4.4ghz processor??? - in which case there is a huge differernce between the alleged, and actual processor power.

If the dual core AMD processor is 2.3ghz, does this mean each core is only a pathetic 1.15ghz??! Should i tell them to return it and spend a little extra on the Isys EX, or a little less on the 2x 1.6ghz Isys pro??



Ps. according to system description the RAM reads 1942mb when it is supposed to be a 2gb (i.e 2048mb) RAM. I know the values arent always exact, but does this sound right?
(I got a Intel Core 2 duo novatech pc 5/6 months ago, but didnt have these issues)


many thanks for help in advance..

[djgandy]

If the processor speed reads 2.3ghz then it has 2 x 2.3ghz processors.


Ps. according to system description the RAM reads 1942mb

The graphics card shares the systems memory. This is why it shows less than 2048mb of ram.

[NovaSail]

thanks v. much dj gandy. i was just wonderin cus on my PC it is a 2x 1.86 ghz and it say 1.86 ghz twice next to rpocessor. also its bit odd for them to write 2X 2.2 on the site if it isnt really the case.
thanks bout the RAM, i didnt know that!!

[NovaSail]

......oh yeah it has a intergrated/motherboard graphics, thats why the RAM seems a bit low then. thnx