Acreo Aeneas

Okay, since I'm replacing my current system mobo and processor with a ASUS and a Pentium D 805 (2.66 Ghz), I'm wondering, how much of a performance difference is there between the lower end Pentium Ds and the lower end Core 2 Duos? And does anyone know of any websites that compare a P-D with a C2D?

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Zoopy

Bottom end Core 2 Duo = Mike Tyson.

Bottom end Pentium D = six year old little girl.

sordavie

If you're looking for a bargain, maybe look at the Core 2 Duo E4300 during Q2 of this year, when it's supposed to drop to $133.

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets...spx?i=2903&p=2

It's light years ahead of any pentium D; and looks to be roughly on par with the AMD X2 4600+, which at the moment is still $200+

[edit] Haha, look at that Pentium D 945 that they stuck in the benchmarks just for comparison--and that's not even low end pentium D.

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Acreo Aeneas

Wow quick replies

I'm building a new system with a planned E6600 in a few months, but I was curious to know the performance variance since I never planned on having to replace the mobo and processor in my current system.

Thanks everyone.

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Apophis

I just bought a bunch of equipment to build some machines for work. They're all going to be E6600 based too! I'm actually thinking about doing that for home as well. My current machine is a water-cooled Intel 805D clocked up to 3.6GHz.

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Dick Blonov

Some more info here.

Right now, IMHO, the best bang for the buck is the E6400. The benchmarks I saw, show that the bigger cache in the E6600 does not give you much of a gaming performance increase (around 5-6% clock for clock). I bought the E6400, and I'm clocking it a 2.56Ghz, stock cooler. It just cruises nicely with temps at full load under 55C. I used the money I saved on other parts.

Went from a P4 2.4@2.89 on a P4P800, 2G DDR-400 to

E6400@2.56G
2G DDR2-800 (4-4-4-12)
Mobo: Intel 975XBX2

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Zoopy

Just remember when getting your new motherboard that you'll most likely need DDR2 RAM (there might be a C2D that takes DDR RAM but I doubt it).

War.mongeR1

Pentium D's blew chunks compared to the new Core 2 Duo. Check out www.tomshardware.com where they overclocked one of the cheap Core 2 Duos ($190 E6300) and it outperformed the X6800 Core 2 Duo($999). Its a really good value. Even not overclocked it's still really good.

Acreo Aeneas

Well, actually, my mobo only forced me to get the 805. I'm reusing the rest of my system. I can't afford to replace anymore parts on this build.

And yea the 805 is one OCer's dream. With adaquate cooling, THG managed to get it to 4.1 Ghz. At least in it's stock, it's an upgrade from my P4 Prescott 3.06 GHz CPU.

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Don't worry too much about not being able to get a Core 2. You definitely won't be having performance issues because of a 805.

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Acreo Aeneas

That's true. This'll hold me until I can build my C2D system over the summer.

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