# School me on quad core processors v build me a rig

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**Created:** [August 12, 2007, 7:18pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/school-me-on-quad-core-processors-v-build-me-a-rig/33794 "2007-08-12T19:18:19Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 9:56am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/school-me-on-quad-core-processors-v-build-me-a-rig/33794/38 "2007-08-13T09:56:31Z")

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well… when they were up to 3.8ghz i think was the highest i have seen… then most processors now sit anywhere from 2.0ghz to 2.6ghz… I would say thats a drop. I think this is what marcus was getting at… but again its a terrible way to grade a processor when the L2 and L1 caches have increased immensely in size… and obviously the introduction of mulitple processing cores to increase performance.

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