Which is faster

[gmelendez]

Which is faster a pentium HT 4 @ 3.4, Pentium D 935 @ 3.2 or a Pentium Dual Core E2160 @ 1.8

Thanks for the help

 

[JAG87]

the E2160 is the fastest.

 

[MarcVenice]

e2160 will be slightly faster, but not to much. I wouldn't buy one personaly, go for a cheap AMD instead, or just go for a e4300/e4400.

 

[gmelendez]

Originally posted by: JAG87
the E2160 is the fastest.

Is there a huge diff in speed, A friend of mine has a Pentium Ht 3.4 Northwood with a Asus P4C800-E Deluxe board, he is looking to make an upgrade to a dell inspiron 530 machine with a G33 Chipset board and a Pentium E2160 @ 1.8 CPU, do you think he will notice a real speed increase.

 

[Accord99]

Originally posted by: gmelendez
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: JAG87
the E2160 is the fastest.</end quote></div>

Is there a huge diff in speed, A friend of mine has a Pentium Ht 3.4 Northwood with a Asus P4C800-E Deluxe board, he is looking to make an upgrade to a dell inspiron 530 machine with a G33 Chipset board and a Pentium E2160 @ 1.8 CPU, do you think he will notice a real speed increase.

The two systems will be similar in single-threaded applications. It'll only be noticeable with multi-threaded apps like video encoding.

 

[MarcVenice]

Accord is right. But amd OWNS the low segment market, he should get something similar priced with a AMD cpu.

 

[Arkaign]

That wouldn't be a bad move, as they are dirt cheap and you can drop in any current C2D/C2Q in that board. One thing to make sure of is his video card, if he games. His old AGP card will_not_work in that new box.

 

[f4phantom2500]

i would not suggest a dell to anyone if they want low cost, high performance since you can't overclock a cheap dell (unless they started putting actual options for it in their bios). he can just build his own and overclock an e2160 to like 3ghz, something i would LOVE to see done on a factory build from the likes of dell, hp, etc.

 

[Arkaign]

Originally posted by: f4phantom2500
i would not suggest a dell to anyone if they want low cost, high performance since you can't overclock a cheap dell (unless they started putting actual options for it in their bios). he can just build his own and overclock an e2160 to like 3ghz, something i would LOVE to see done on a factory build from the likes of dell, hp, etc.

I'm with you pretty much, but overclockers/enthusiasts are rare in the wild, and it's HARD to beat a Dell deal for an out-of-the-box ready system with legal Windows.

 

[f4phantom2500]

Originally posted by: Arkaign
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: f4phantom2500
i would not suggest a dell to anyone if they want low cost, high performance since you can't overclock a cheap dell (unless they started putting actual options for it in their bios). he can just build his own and overclock an e2160 to like 3ghz, something i would LOVE to see done on a factory build from the likes of dell, hp, etc.</end quote></div>

I'm with you pretty much, but overclockers/enthusiasts are rare in the wild, and it's HARD to beat a Dell deal for an out-of-the-box ready system with legal Windows.

yeah, that's true. we are an uncommon breed, and all of us are anandtech forum goers lol.

 

[JWade]

i buy dell's for my wife. I say Dell's because i only get the 1 year warranty that comes with them. When it runs out, i get her a new one, well not new, i get refurbs as you can save alot that way. Out of 5 Dell's, only had one that had any issues, and they came to the house and replaced what was wrong with it (motherboard went bad, but they replaced it with a new one). For someone who doesnt build their own, and wants legal windows with some warranty, i think Dell's are good, though i would recommend the outlet as opposed to buying new, if you wait and keep checking there are some sweet deals. (just saw a sempron 3400+ system with vista for $169 before shipping/tax)

 

[harpoon84]

Originally posted by: MarcVenice
e2160 will be slightly faster, but not to much. I wouldn't buy one personaly, go for a cheap AMD instead, or just go for a e4300/e4400.

A E2160 is just short of the E4300 in performance, everything between the two is identical except for the cache, 1MB vs 2MB. It is about the equivalent to an X2 4200+, so it's not entirely in the same league as say, the X2 3600+.

I do agree that the X2 3600+ is the best value dual core around, bar none. The E21x0 ain't too bad too if you overclock them, but for $20 more you can get an E4300... of course you have to draw the line somewhere.