E2140 or P4 3.2 Northwood?

[taisingera]

Here's my situation, I'm planning on building a C2D E6600/6750 in early August, but I have a P4 3.2 system with an AGP AIW X800XT that works extremely well for capturing TV/S-video using MMC but I would like to shrink the old system down to mATX. Sure I could get a 865G Socket 775 board (to reuse DDR and AGP) for my main system, but that seems half-a$$ed. My question is, how would a E2140 be against the P4 3.2C, which would only be used for capturing and maybe as a backup?

Mind you, I have a Theater 550 that I plan on trying in the new system with XP MCE and then some free third party PVR apps, but I just don't think I will be able to duplicate the tasks with it that I do on the AIW.

 

[f4phantom2500]

it would definitely be a better multitasker, and i'm fairly certain that it will be at least as fast in single threaded apps. but, it will *definitely* run cooler and require a lesser heatsink, use less energy, etc. since you have the northwood and it works well, i would just use it; why replace something that works fine? but know that going with the e2140 will mean faster multitasking, cooler operation, and quite possibly faster monotasking (i guess is what you'd call it).

also keep in mind that if you get a board that can overclock at all, and if you're willing to do it, the e2140 would either scale to the max that the board can do (assuming it's not very good at ocing, but can do a bit) or would run circles around the northwood (assuming the board is good for overclocking and goes beyond the limits of the e2140).

 

[Avalon]

I don't think it would be quite as fast in single threaded apps, but in anything besides that it should definitely pull ahead. I'm just basing my guess on the fact that a 1MB C2D @ 1.6Ghz isn't going to be much faster than a 1.6Ghz K8, which in turn would be equivalent to perhaps a 2.8Ghz P4.

On the upside, like f4phantom said, it'd definitely run cooler and use less energy.

 

[harpoon84]

Originally posted by: Avalon
I don't think it would be quite as fast in single threaded apps, but in anything besides that it should definitely pull ahead. I'm just basing my guess on the fact that a 1MB C2D @ 1.6Ghz isn't going to be much faster than a 1.6Ghz K8, which in turn would be equivalent to perhaps a 2.8Ghz P4.

On the upside, like f4phantom said, it'd definitely run cooler and use less energy.

http://xbitlabs.com/articles/c...lay/pentium-e2160.html

I think you're underestimating the E2140 a bit, it is the equivalent of the 1.9GHz X2 3600+, which I believe would be quite competitive with the 3.2GHz P4 in single threaded tasks.

You can see the E2140 holding up to the PD 935 (3.2GHz) quite well too. I'd call it a wash between the two performance wise, power efficiency however...