Intel Pentium D

[DasFox]

I've never really followed the Intel scene, I'm more a AMD guy, so when I was hired for a PC gaming center to help out with my gaming experience, I noticed that the boxes are running Pentium D CPUs.

Given my ignorance with Intel, not totally mind you, hehe, but I haven't been paying that much attention either, so where do the Pentium Ds stand in the line of order with the others?

I know of course the Celeron, I do believe is the lowest end of the Intel line and that hasn't changed over the years, so I wanted to know where the D stands in relation to the P4?

THANKS

P.S. Do the Intel Ds make a good gaming box?

 

[EatSpam]

The Pentium D series is Intel's current top of the line desktop chip. They are dual core CPUs that compete with AMD's X2 series. They tend to be hotter and slower in gaming than the X2, but not terrible. The P-D 9XX series runs faster and cooler than the P-D 8XX series.

The Pentium D is basically 2 P4 chips on one chip.

 

[Aluvus]

Originally posted by: EatSpam
The Pentium D series is Intel's current top of the line desktop chip. They are dual core CPUs that compete with AMD's X2 series. They tend to be hotter and slower in gaming than the X2, but not terrible. The P-D 9XX series runs faster and cooler than the P-D 8XX series.

The Pentium D is basically 2 P4 chips on one chip.

The Pentium Extreme Edition is Intel's current top-of-the-line desktop chip. The differences from the Pentium D are few.

The Pentium D is a dual-core part. It is, indeed, essentially 2 Pentium 4 cores in one package (details). Running only one intensive program, if that program is not multi-threaded (which is usually the case in gaming), a Pentium D will perform almost indistinguishably from a Pentium 4 with the same cache and clock speed.

 

[DasFox]

Ahh ok cool.

THANKS

 

[Steaksauce]

Aluvus is da man!

 

[pcoffman]

Originally posted by: DasFox
Do the Intel Ds make a good gaming box?

Not so much. Intel aims the Extreme Edition at the gaming segment, and even Extreme Editions trail the competition at gaming (most other things as well). Technically the Pentium Extreme Edition and Pentium D are different names for different processors. It's not the Pentium D Extreme Edition, just Pentium Extreme Edition. The two processors nevertheless are similarly architected.

Intel has a Core 2 Duo desktop processor due in July, and it should bring desktop gaming up to par with AMD, and then some.