- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Well, thats the great megahertz myth as told by intel for many years for marketting purposes.
The 3000+ denotes that it should run as fast as a 3.0 ghz pentium, technically speaking its actually a reference to an older AMD processor, but generally speaking, an athlon64 3000+ is the equivalent of an intel pentium 4 3.0ghz, regardless of it's clock speed.
But the real deciding factor is bench marks rather than the name of the processor or any arbitary figure.
And the benchmark you should rely on? Any number of those done by tomshardware guide (www.tomshardware.com), but for your convenience, here is a good one to sum things up. And all test results were derived from a fair test.
Go here
To sum up, for gaming go for an Athlon 64, if you're more into video editing or stuff of that ilk, go for a pentium 4.
One last thing, please remember that the 64bit version of Windows XP will eventually be released, and when it does you'll get a nice speed bump in the OS.