Quick question on AMD vs Intel

[Traveler]

I'm trying to make a decision on AMD $99 offer (newegg) or Intel $150 offer (zipzoomfly) .

How does Athlon 64 3400+ (2.4GHz 512KB L2 Cache Socket 754 Processor) compare with Pentium D 805 in term of performance and heat in normal running (no overclocking)?

 

[Traveler]

From what I read in tomshardware's cpu comparison chart, Pentium D 805 seems to be better than Athlon 64 3400+ in almost every task.

 

[AMD K5]

you can not compare a 2 year old AMD to a New dual core intel CPU. you should compare the dual core intel pentium D 805 to the dual core AMD Athlon X2-3800... they are around the same price and the Athlon X2 would out perform the Intel....

 

[Traveler]

I've been out for 2 years. If it isn't urgent, I would wait another 6 months.

Thanks for the advice. I know Athlon x2 3800+ is good, but it's $50 pricy over Pentium D. For $150, I can get cpu (pentium d 805) + mb (asus p5p800-vm).

 

[stevty2889]

It depends a lot on the applications you will be running. For non-smp aware applications, the 3400+ will be a good bit faster, for SMP aware applications, or cpu intensive multitasking, the 805 will be faster, despite is lower performance/core. The 8xx series pentium-d's are pretty hot running, but at stock speeds it should be ok. A64's and X2's run a good bit cooler than Intel netburst based CPU's.

I don't think the P5P800-vm supports the 805 by the way..only the P5P800-SE. Despite being LGA775, there are a lot of LGA775 motherboards that don't support all LGA775 CPU's.

 

[Traveler]

Thanks for the note.

But I think Asus lists Pentium D 805 in P5P800-vm's support page.