Why would I choose the Intel Xeon 3060 2 x 2.4GHz Cores Processor over the Intel Pentium 830 with 2 x 2.8GHz Cores?

The answer to this question is quite simple. The front side bus (or FSB for short). You’ll take notice in the specifications of processors that the FSB is mentioned. The front side bus explained in simpler terms is just the speed and maximum power at which the internal processes of the processor are communicated amongst itself. In the Pentium, you’ll see that the FSB is 800MHz --- in the Xeon, it’s 1066MHz. The greater the FSB, the better that the communication will be within the machine.

 Why is the Xeon with 2 x 2.4GHz faster than the Pentium that houses 2 x 2.8GHz cores. Isn’t the processor with the 2.8GHZ cores going to be faster?

The clock speed on the Pentium series is a little faster; however, Intel modified the size of the chip (in measures of NANOmeters) to allow the cores that the Xeon housed to run at a slower clock speed (the 2.0GHz is it’s clock-speed) but still process far more efficiently. The sub-conductor material has been modified through the ages (and will continue to change throughout time) --- allowing more transistors, gates and pathways to optimize the transmission of data; thus allowing slower clock-speeds which creates less heat in the server and so on and so forth . The Xeon is just a newer generation of processor

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