What does an Intel E2140 compare to in terms of the Pentium 4 line?

[Soundmanred]

The Intel E2140 is the low end of the Dual Core line, and I was wondering performance wise what I should expect. (My last system was a Pentium 4 2.8GHz)
For example, playing Doom 3 on my last system was ok, but I had to turn down alot of stuff to get it running smoothly. Using the same graphics card and amount of RAM, will there be an increase in performance?
What about DIVX and other video encoding?

 

[Cheex]

What video card, how much memory, what resolution you play at??

 

[daveybrat]

Video Card = more important than cpu for gaming


That said, an e2140 is much faster than a P4 2.8GHz.

 

[Hippiekiller]

I just put together and e2140 system last week and I love it. This chip gives EXCELLENT performance to cost ratio when overclocking.

I had my chip running at 333 FBS which is a given OC with a good chipset on your motherboard, My e2140 @ 2.66GHZ was just barely beating out a e6700 in SiSoft Sandra CPU benchmarks. And I now run my chip at 2.8 GHZ and the performance in games is far above what I expected, especially CS and Oblivion.

I switched from a P4 2.8C and the differences is incredible.

 

[21stHermit]

Originally posted by: Soundmanred
The Intel E2140 is the low end of the Dual Core line, and I was wondering performance wise what I should expect. (My last system was a Pentium 4 2.8GHz)
For example, playing Doom 3 on my last system was ok, but I had to turn down alot of stuff to get it running smoothly. Using the same graphics card and amount of RAM, will there be an increase in performance?
What about DIVX and other video encoding?

X-bit Labs did a number of benchmarks with a E21xx vs. various Intel and AMD CPUs. For most applications, cache is unimportant and a E21xx, E4xxx and E6xxx are all the same at the same GHz. Cache is important for games, don't know why.

Tom's CPU Comparator may have your P4 2.8 so you can do A-B comparisons.

HTH
Hermit

 

[Zap]

Tom's CPU charts has a Prescott 2.8GHz. Comparing that to the E2140 resulted in win after win for the E2140 for the ones I checked on (not all). DIVX did not have results for the E2140, but all other Core processors were faster. In gaming the E2140 was faster for stuff I checked (Prey, 3DMock).

 

[RussianSensation]

For $10 more, get the 2160 with multiplier 9. This way FSB of 333 on P35 chipset will give 3.0ghz without even overclocking the motherboard.

It should outperform the P4 system, and give you upgrade room for Quad core processors down the line. As others have said, performance will depend on the game because some games like FEAR are extremely gpu limited.

E2160 rules $85 market

 

[21stHermit]

Originally posted by: RussianSensation
For $10 more, get the 2160 with multiplier 9.

For $6 more get the E2180, $91 then have 10 multiplier and go even faster. Also, chances are this is the latest stepping.

Hermit

 

[nonameo]

the e2140 is faster than many of the dual core netburst procs.

 

[RussianSensation]

Originally posted by: 21stHermit

Originally posted by: RussianSensation
For $10 more, get the 2160 with multiplier 9.

For $6 more get the E2180, $91 then have 10 multiplier and go even faster. Also, chances are this is the latest stepping.

Hermit

Good call. Forgot that existed hehe.