Ghz Vs. Mhz?
 

What is the difference between the two I always see the new comps usually advertising like 2.4 Ghz and maybe 400-700 Mhz?

Dood The difference is between mhz and ghz is like...

Mhz = old fat slow guy wearing sandals...
Ghz = young punk soaring through the city streets in a BMW

recap: Mhz=slow, old ... Ghz: New, Hot, & Fast :D
Get it ? :grin:

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Generally, 1,000 Mega is 1 Giga. In other words, a 2.4 GHz computer would be equal to a 2,400 MHz one.

actually chruser no, it's 1024mega = 1 giga ;) OLD OLD OLD dos theory classes actually work

It depends. Frequency is base 10. Data storage/transfer is base 2 (which means that 1K is 2^10, or 1024).

okay, that was all too technical for me...

That isnt really correct too. You begin with BYTES not megas.

WW is right. End of discussion. Shutup. All of you. Stfu.

oh ok thats what I thought it was was for but sometimes I see like 2.4 ghz then off a bit more it'll say something like 700mhz is that the speed of the bus or what?

Yeah, there's external and internal bus speeds. Having a meat grinder that can grind 2 tons of meat a day is useless if you can only get 100 pounds per day to it, to use an analogy.

Mhz= Megahartz
GHz= Gigahartz

MB= Megabite
GB= Gigabite

You mean hertz and bytes?

Ok thanxz for the info. Another good analogy is comparing it too a constipated man :p

Damn you! I got all excited thinking that Johnny was back. >.<

Two bits in a bite.

Four bits in a nibble.

Eight bits in a byte.

1024 bytes in a kilo byte.

1024 kilo bytes in a mega byte.

1024 mega bytes in a giga byte.

1024 giga bytes in a tera byte.

1024 tera bytes in a peta byte.

1024 peta bytes in a exa byte.

1024 exa bytes in a zetta byte.

1024 zetta bytes in a yotta byte.

I think that about sums up what I wanted to write.

Exabyte, rather then erobyte. Then Zetta-, and then Yotta-.

And tera- is a single "r".

Wow, I feel like I can pass the A+ cert test after scrolling through this thread, thanks for the refresher =)

0100 0101 There, now you can complete A+ Cert.

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