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Note: Please disregard the results below, it seems variables affecting results were present and therefore rendered the results in this post incorrect.

Maybe the following is not the best way to look at Computer processors, but it is a valid way for some scenarios, here are my results for comparing Dual Core Pentiums, Core2 Duo, and Core2 Quad, in addition to the Celeron E3300.

Most CPUs are on a Foxconn G33M motherboard with Dual Channel memory, the exception to this are the 2 pentium 4 CPUs and the 2 laptops.

I wanted to share the results with you because i think they are not what most people expect, on a core by core basis, Dual Core beats Quad Core for this test, but the Quad core wins on a processor to processor comparison surely

The test is as follows.

Every core loads 1 million words (English, Spanish, Italian) into RAM (So a dual core would have the 1 million words loaded twice into ram, and a quad core 4 times), then starts comparing the words to documents and texts, the text is retrieved from the network.

With 10 Processor cores running the results are as follows.

Core2 Duo E4400 (2Ghz) – 2 cores running – 33/34 (avg. 33.5)
Celeron Duo E3300 (2.5Ghz) – 2 Cores running – 32/33 (avg. 32.5)
Core2 Duo T7100 (1.8Ghz)- 2 Cores running – 28/29 (avg. 28.5)
Core2 Quad Q8300 (2.5Ghz) – 3 cores running – 26/26/26 (avg. 26)
Core2 Quad Q6600 (2.4Ghz) – 4 cores running – 23/25/23/29 (avg. 25)
Core2 Quad Q6600 (2.4Ghz) – 3 cores running – 24/25/25 (avg 24.6)
Pentium Dual Core T2080 (1.73Ghz) – 2 Cores running – 24/24 (Avg 24)
Pentium 4 HT Prescott (3.4Ghz) – 2 threads running – 16/16 (avg 16)
Pentium 4 HT Northwood (2.4Ghz) – 2 threads running – 11/13 (Avg 12)

In this experiment, the cache seems irrelevant.
Probably due to memory bottlenecks, the Dual cores at lower clock speeds outperform the higher clock speed quad cores.

So i visited one if the Orange shops to exchange my SIM card with a 3G sim card, and ever since, i have not used my phone much, not because i was busy with 3G, on the contrary, that didn’t work, but because the GSM phone network stopped working at my office, and many times outside my office.

This is indeed funny, my theory is, Orange, in an effort to win customers over by being the first to offer 3G in Jordan (3G 3.5 or as they call it 3G+) annoyed it’s current subscribers by the unreliable phone (audio) connectivity, not only are all incoming calls dropped as (Can not be reached) when i am at the office, i can not make outgoing calls either.

It is worth mentioning that i am not alone, someone else at the office with a NOKIA E52 has the same problem (A welcome increase in productivity ), and i have tried a Sony Ericsson P990i and a nokia N95, all 3 phones have the same problem, all 3 phones 3G capable.

So orange, when are you going to fix things, this is plain ridiculous, as if you forgot to test the service, what happened to your “Jupiter” mini network that you use for testing, or is that propaganda to convince us that you do your homework ?

The problem is, No signal most of the time, sometimes there is a signal but i can not make calls and i appear as can not be reached to callers, sometimes there is the 3G symbol, sometimes there is a 3G symbol with a crossed phone beside it, Other times it reads no available networks…

UPDATE: For now, i have got my phone to work by switching the SIM card to any NON-3G phone, at the minute a sub $30 Mototrola WX160

Today, i got a new Wireless Lite N router for JD20 (Around $28), and it works like a dream, in reality, the following is a sampleof the routers web GUI responce headers

Server: TP-LINK Router
Connection: Keep-Alive
WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="XTECH 150Mbps Wireless Lite-N Router WR771LN"
Content-Length: 26344
Content-Type: image/jpeg

200 OK

Some Hanania Investment Group seems to be responcible for this new XTECH Brand, and for this router, it is well worth the money.

The RJ45 eithernet cable mentioned on the outside as included is not included, but then again, why would i need 1 more eithernet cable.

This model seems to be the same as TP-WR741ND , and if you know what little endian, big endian, and a hex editor are, you may be able to put the “Open Sourced” TP-LINK software back on this hardware.

Anyway, i hope all other XTECH stuff are as good as this one

NOTE: The only reason you may want to have the TP-LINK firmware back on this router is that there is no mentioning of this router on xtechinternational.com and therefore i can not find a firmware upgrade, TP link will surely have the upgrades as soon as they are out though.

The router is probably an atheros chip router with a

HYNIX 933S C
HY5DU561622FTP-D43 RAM

If anyone wants some photos, i can post them here for you no problem

you can find this router almost everywhere, SmartBuy Carefour, and others are stacking piles of it.

Good Luck

It seems we are off to a good start with the data being processed continously, and the most important functions implemented on the website, We should be displaying very valuable data very soon.

Now, the name will probably be Stats Infinity, Stats short for Statistics, and Infinity to tell the world we intend to save historical data forever, and we intend to make history of a server, a domain, or an IP address available at all times.

We have just started today, so not much is displayed yet, we will be starting by displaying nameserver data, then mail server data, Web, then any other relations.

We will also have aggrigate statistics of almost everything we can think of.

For example, you can already find out how many domain names actually use godaddy’s nameservers by simple checking statistics about domains that point to the nameservers under DOMAINCONTROL.COM

Please let us know of your comments and suggestions, we would be very grateful

i remember when Windows 95 came out, the miracle of 32bit computing, the number 4GBs of RAM was so huge that i never thought we would get there, why in the world would anyone want to have 4GBs of ram on a computer, seemed like infinity at the time. (Yes i know MS released 32 bit before 95 with Win32s and NT but i am talking about ordinary desktops)

Anyway, these days, when an application works 32bit only, i know in advance the application is no longer maintained, With Virtualization, Database, RamDisks and other things, 32bit is long gone (At least to me), the 2 to the power 32 = 4GB are hardly good for a modern computer with a computer geek behind it, 2 to the power 64 = , (In reality, the 52/48 bit physical address is more than enough so it is not realy 64bit). seems more like it, and seems like something that will not be obsolete in the comming 20 years (Unless new technology introduces new kinds of ram where we get ram in Terrabytes)

Anyway, Microsoft’s 32 bit emulator seems to be working fine, but not for device drivers, the reason for that is that the driver is lower than the emulator (Closer to the hardware and does not pass by the emulator), This is not a problem as far as i can see as any modern hardware supporting 64bit computing should have 64bit drivers, PCI cards that do not support 64bit are common, but then again, the 32bit drivers should work for those.

Anyway, thanks to AMD i now have a 28GB Ram Hard Disk (Virtual), and when i want to analyze Database data, disk seek time is not longer an issue to me, seek time simply does not exist in RAM.