I just got a 2.4 GHz P4 and ran some tests against my old 1 GHz P3 using a processor intensive application.

Surprisingly, the P4 is only 38% faster. I was SHOCKED. I ran similar tests back when i migrated from P1 to P2 and then from P2 to P3. Each time the processor was more than 10 times as fast!

I would have expected to more than double my performance based on clock speed alone.

*** is going on with the P4? is it just a piece of crap?