Presler Vs. Allendale for distrubuted computing ?

[Soulkeeper]

anyone ran both these chips and compared performance ?

the ones i am looking at comparing will be:

Pentium D 915
Core 2 Duo E4300

both will be overclocked to the maximum i can in a cheap motherboard with cheap memory and cheap cooling


i already have a 4300 oc'd to 2.65GHz setup already
but i have an extra board, memory, etc. and just need another cpu to throw in it

would i notice the difference if i saved 70 bucks and went with the presler core ?

 

[stevty2889]

Deinatly go with the allendale. Presler has 4mb of cahce, but it's 2x2mb rather than shared cache, also there was a thread in here not too long ago about how pentium-d's suck for distributed computing. My core 2 duo is deffinatly way way faster at F@H than my pentium-d(matter of fact, it puts out more points per day, than when I was running a pentium-d at 3.4 and another at 3.6ghz together).

 

[Soulkeeper]

also wouldn't the higher clock speed of the presler give it a definative lead in cache bandwidth ?

 

[MadAmos]

My e6400 runs right at 2x the daily point production of my 915 box. There is no comparison, Get the Allendale as faster + less wattage = 😀 :beer

 

[Soulkeeper]

ok thanks guys

yeah this allendale kills my socket 478 prescott system clocked at 3.2