BonzaiDuck
Lifer
A friend has built a system around a Presler CPU, and complains that it runs "hot, hot, hot!!" despite his application of ThermalRight SI-120 cooler.
I myself am still ruminating about "AMD vs Intel," although the advice seems to lean toward the former, and it will be a "first" for me.
But looking into my friend's disenchantment, I decided to visit the INtel site for product specs, looking for that "Table 5-1" common to all of their processor spec sheets.
There seem to be two different instances of the Pentium D 930, 940 and 950 Presler cores (I assume the Presler is represented in the "900" series.) One instance -- for each model -- shows a TDP value of 130W, while the other instance is rated at 95W.
Is this a matter of different production codes, or some refinement of the CPU manufacturing process with different production series? I seem to recall similar differences with the Northwood and Prescott CPUs.
If so, which five-character product code(s) would match the CPUs with a lower thermal power?
I myself am still ruminating about "AMD vs Intel," although the advice seems to lean toward the former, and it will be a "first" for me.
But looking into my friend's disenchantment, I decided to visit the INtel site for product specs, looking for that "Table 5-1" common to all of their processor spec sheets.
There seem to be two different instances of the Pentium D 930, 940 and 950 Presler cores (I assume the Presler is represented in the "900" series.) One instance -- for each model -- shows a TDP value of 130W, while the other instance is rated at 95W.
Is this a matter of different production codes, or some refinement of the CPU manufacturing process with different production series? I seem to recall similar differences with the Northwood and Prescott CPUs.
If so, which five-character product code(s) would match the CPUs with a lower thermal power?
