Re: 4200 faster than D 925?
This is why the C2D chips were such a surprise.
Up until they were released, clock to clock comparisons between AMD and Intel chips the AMDs won hands down. During the "quest for higher clockspeed without burning a hole through the motherboard" run that typified the P4 / Athlon era, AMD had to name its chips according to a "performance rating" (hence your AM2 4000+ that runs at 2.2) rather than the clock speed naming that was industry standard.
Too many folks at that time equated cpu clockspeed with performance and AMD was afraid that the fact of their 2.2 chips performing handstands compaired to the P4 3.2 chips would be lost on the general public.
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