How do I compare CPUs?

[bjagd02]

Hi I have two computers and I wanted to compare the CPUs but I dont know which ones to pick in the drop down list. I know one is a Intel Centrino Duo T2050 and the other is an AMD Athlon 64 3500+ but I dont know what all the other information is about (Clawhammer, etc.) How do I figure out what mine is and which one to pick? I understand that my Intel is probably better, but I want to see for sure how they measure up. I also want to compare them with Counter Strike Source. Thank you

 

[dragonsprayer]

i suggest you run simutaous tests - like turn on avg and spysweeper or what ever background stuff you run and run doom3 timedemo (or what ever game test) with the same graphics card.

if you listen to music alot put on a cd and run a game test.

if you do alot of office stuff - leave on the same prgrams and run those programs.

google stablity test and run it to set your oc -- its free from pcworld

or if you encode do that while your normal backgrounds run.

or you can run free snadra which does not tell you much -- mem bandwidth is really good for tuning your mem