I am confused. Can anyone give me some ideas?

[razibhasan]

Hi,

I'm a bit confused about Intel's Dual Dore processors and Pentium D processors.

Can anyone please tell me which one is better among them? And why Intel has those two confusing products?

http://www.intel.com/products/...er/chart/pentium_d.htm

http://www.intel.com/products/.../pentium_dual-core.htm

Thanks in advance

 

[bfdd]

Pentium D's are based on the Pentium 4. Pentium Dual-Cores are based on the Core Duo technology. Stay away from Pentium D's.

 

[stevty2889]

Yep, like he said, pentium-D's are basicly 2 pentium-4's slapped together. They aren't even made anymore. They use a lot of power, run hot, and don't perform all that well either.

The new Pentium dual core, are core 2 duo processors. They are basicly the lower end budget chips, however they still perform well, and are great overclockers. They just have less cache memory than the E4xxx and E6xxx chips.

There was no real good reason to get a Pentium-D when they were Intel's only dual cores, as they used more power, ran hot, and were slow compared to the competition(AMD's X2's). There is NO good reason to get a pentium-D now.

 

[razibhasan]

Thanks a lot for ur valuable replies . Now i understood

 

[SanDiegoPC]

Originally posted by: bfdd
Pentium D's are based on the Pentium 4. Pentium Dual-Cores are based on the Core Duo technology. Stay away from Pentium D's.

Yep I've got a machine on my network that I built, using that 3.oG Pentium D

It runs *OK* but that's about it. No overclockability (is that a word?) even though I'm using a good board. I built it using Kingston RAM and an Asus P5B motherboard. It's the machine I use outside to run my telescope, so I don't use it all day long thank goodness.

I wish I had used the Core2Duo chip ... and I may just swap the chip out one of these days if I get a bit of extra cash ..

 

[RussianSensation]

Core 2 Duo is about 90-100% faster than Pentium D at the same clock speed.

 

[DSF]

Originally posted by: RussianSensation
Core 2 Duo is about 90-100% faster than Pentium D at the same clock speed.

Is that running a single-threaded or dual-threaded app?

 

[XBoxLPU]

Originally posted by: DSF

Originally posted by: RussianSensation
Core 2 Duo is about 90-100% faster than Pentium D at the same clock speed.

Is that running a single-threaded or dual-threaded app?

Single

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuch...owdoc.aspx?i=2795&p=12

 

[BonzaiDuck]

My brother's old P4/1.8A Ghz 400FSB "Rambus" with D850MV Intel mobo won't work with a larger hard-disk. It's six years old. We decided for all the fam-dam-ily to chip in $20 or $30 per head and get him these:

Allendale E2140

Gigabyte GA-73VM-S2

Kid's room is cramped, he mostly works with multi-media apps, and a few games (but has a Sony PlayStation, too). Judging from the Newegg Cus-reviews -- only 11 of them -- this should do fine -- and no graphics card required.

But I looked around for "bargains" on Pentium D dual-cores. Where you can buy them at all, they cost as much as the Allendales.

Either way -- that's a helluva step up from 1.8 Ghz Pentium4 with FSB = 400 Mhz!! I'm guessing that the 1.6 Ghz Allendale can be over-clocked mildly way beyond "1.8 Ghz" -- and that's two cores -- not one.