Pentium D 925 vs E2160

[lunchm3at]

This would be smallbiz server use... No overclocking or gaming

The E2160 is 1.8ghz, 1MB cache
The Pentium D 925 3.0Ghz 2x2MB cache

both are 800mhz bus

I understand the E2160 is newer technology but the numbers make things unclear.

Thanks for your opinions

 

[Lazlo Panaflex]

Those Pentium D's are space heaters, & really suck up the juice. IMO you're better off with the E2160, which will run cooler & faster.

 

[ChronoReverse]

E2160 hands down.

 

[InflatableBuddha]

The E2160 is based on the Core architecture - more efficient processing per clock cycle than the Pentium D, which is NetBurst-based. Thus it can be clocked slower and still complete more work than a Pentium D.

The difference in cache size doesn't really matter for a small server.

 

[SerpentRoyal]

Plus it's sooo easy to overclock this chip to 2.5GHz with a $71 board and $10/GB DDR2 667 RAM. Select 1:1 memory divider and input 278MHz FSB. Save BIOS and reboot PC. No need to stress test.

 

[HannibalX]

Originally posted by: SerpentRoyal
Plus it's sooo easy to overclock this chip to 2.5GHz with a $71 board and $10/GB DDR2 667 RAM. Select 1:1 memory divider and input 278MHz FSB. Save BIOS and reboot PC. No need to stress test.

Overclocking production servers is not generally acceptable in a business enviroment.

 

[SerpentRoyal]

These CPUs are designed to operate up to 3.0GHz and 333MHz FSB with stock voltage. Raising core speed to 2.5GHz using stock voltage presents zero stability issue. Intel uses the low core speed as a market tool. Has nothing to do with system stability.

 

[HannibalX]

I didn't say that stability had anything to do with it. I said overclocking is generally not accepted in a business enviroment with production servers.

 

[Arkaign]

A 1.8ghz C2D will be ~= a PD @ 3.6Ghz, so in this case, the 2160 will be undeniably faster. Pentium D is also not nice to have above 3ghz, as they get *very* hot. Back in the PD days, unless you were bargain-shopping with the 805 overclock special, X2 was the way to go. My how things have changed. Make sure your board will run the 2160 though. Btw, the 2160 will save tons on power/heat. They even tested one with the fan unplugged and it still performed flawlessly. I would think the D 925 would smoke itself / shut off within a very short period of time in comparison.

You would also be well served by an X2 3600+ for your uses, it's very cheap, and since you don't game, the minor performance difference won't matter. The cheap Nvidia-based mobos for the X2 are very good, much better than the cheap C2D mobos.

 

[Emulex]

yeah the lowly E2140 i got i think its 1.6ghz but drops back to 1.2ghz using speedstep. quite a bit faster i find the system is spinning its wheels on a single standard hard drive more than anything. very snappy.

i did overclock one pad-mod no problems whatsoever using it at home vista.32 for htpc just did the pad mod and didn't worry about it. never once have i had a crash.

for really low end pc users the celeron 420 is pretty slick, 533fsb easy to hit 800fsb many people get them to 1066fsb if you have a bottleneck like disk i/o you'll find that dual cores doesn't buy you much in XP. heck during install of most of the apps and using them it was peaking 1 cpu, maybe 10% on the 2nd one and the rest of the time it was doing disk i/o pending. i was expecting to see some magical load balancing with multiple apps that didn't occur lol

 

[SerpentRoyal]

Originally posted by: Pale Rider
I didn't say that stability had anything to do with it. I said overclocking is generally not accepted in a business enviroment with production servers.

Hmmm...so you have 5th gear but you're not going to shift to 5th because Intel's marketing said NO?

 

[lunchm3at]

thats for the info people... very informative. I guess it will be the 2160.. As far as the OCing is concerned... Its in a dell box so that probably wont even be an option.

 

[JWade]

whats the model of the dell? best make sure it will accept a c2d chip

 

[jonmcc33]

The Core 2 Duo is much faster and cooler.

 

[Emulex]

most c2d mobo's do 1066FSB even the old 2005 model motherboards (such as the ancient 975X). pad-modding a cpu from 800fsb to 1066fsb is really a simple mod thats difficult to go wrong if you have any patience