Pentium 540 3.2 Prescott upgrade?

[alkemyst]

My dad has a Asus P5AD2-E Premium motherboard and 1GB of PC4200 Corsair. He is looking to upgrade it a bit and I see there are CPU's out there for around $100 that get good ratings.

I didn't know his motherboard was upgradable to these chips.

I know the 840 D was a great chip and that the C2D's are better then the Pentium D's at times.

What's the best CPU he should go with for that budget? I was going to have him snag a cheap memory kit too.

 

[secretanchitman]

"I know the 840 D was a great chip and that the C2D's are better then the Pentium D's at times. "

no no no no no no and no. c2d BLOWS the pentium d out of the water ALL the time, not at times. lol...

but unfortunately, i dont think your mobo supports c2d at all, if im looking at the asus cpu support thing correctly. it only supports pentium 4 prescott (5xx, 6xx, but NOT the cedar mills).

 

[alkemyst]

some tests show higher Pentium D are faster than lower C2D.

 

[konceptz]

My girlfriends Pentium D I built her is great. She didn't need to buy a spaceheater.

 

[Mondoman]

alk, for $140-180, you can get an e2160 that will run at 3GHz no problem (9x333MHz FSB), along with a decent MB that will allow such OCs (e.g. Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L). This will blow any Pentium D out of the water (but you WILL have to buy a separate space heater, as it won't put out nearly as much heat...).

 

[konceptz]

$100 E2180 And Overclockable Mobo

Friend just ordered this. I don't trust the motherboard, but for $100 you can't really beat it.

 

[Markfw]

Originally posted by: alkemyst
some tests show higher Pentium D are faster than lower C2D.

Show me ONE test. Unless you show a 965 (or whatever the highest clocked D) again the lowest stock C2D. A C2D is twice the power (or more) at the same clock speed. Not even close dude.

 

[konceptz]

Show me ONE test. Unless you show a 965 (or whatever the highest clocked D) again the lowest stock C2D. A C2D is twice the power (or more) at the same clock speed. Not even close dude.

This bench clearly shows the Pentium D 940 @ 3.2 Ghz scores higher than the E6600 @ 2.4


Completely Valid Benchmark

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: konceptz

Show me ONE test. Unless you show a 965 (or whatever the highest clocked D) again the lowest stock C2D. A C2D is twice the power (or more) at the same clock speed. Not even close dude.

This bench clearly shows the Pentium D 940 @ 3.2 Ghz scores higher than the E6600 @ 2.4


Completely Valid Benchmark

LMAO, that's great. BTW, I'm sure that a 965 would make an E6300 look absolutely slow in the P4's one strength, video encoding.

 

[JWade]

i'd recommend getting a cheap c2d and new motherboard, checked Asus's website, your board doesnt support c2d's at all. Going to a new board that has 1333mhz bus, and a cheap c2d (the e2xxx series) will allow you to go quad core later on down the road as another upgrade. Also i would get more/faster ram than that pc4200

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: Markfw900

Originally posted by: alkemyst
some tests show higher Pentium D are faster than lower C2D.

Show me ONE test. Unless you show a 965 (or whatever the highest clocked D) again the lowest stock C2D. A C2D is twice the power (or more) at the same clock speed. Not even close dude.

Those would be the tests I saw...of course I explained this in the same thing you quoted. Fresh air may do you some good, dude.

 

[alkemyst]

I will need to have him get a new motherboard anyway...he has a 925XE chipset...the P4 EE's will run but none of the dual cores, the person that had told me about the upgrade thought it was a 955 chipset.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: konceptz
$100 E2180 And Overclockable Mobo

Friend just ordered this. I don't trust the motherboard, but for $100 you can't really beat it.

Interesting deal, thanks. It says "backordered" now though.