Well I think you people very much for your answers. At least now I have a slightly better understanding of CPU's. I still have some studying on the subject to do but at least have enough understanding to know where to begin.
and here's a question for Lexluethar
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Two processors on the same chip (so they communicate extremely fast b/c they are in the same dye) will compute more than twice as fast as one. So a 1 ghz double core processor will more than double the output of a 1 ghz single core. I should note that your OS/software must be able to multithread (send more than one process to the cpu) in order to take advantage of multiple cores.
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Which Operation Systems support multithreading?
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