Speed and chips and GHz question

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I've currently got an AMD Athlon XP 3000+ 2.17GHz CPU.

If I get a new PC, I'm looking at an Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400S / 2.66 GHz.

Arithmetic tells me this is going to be at least 20% faster because of the GHz difference.

But is this going to be twice as fast because it's got 2 CPUs? I guess that's what the Core 2 means - or does it have 4? (Quad?)
 
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