Best Pentium 4 or best Penitum D?
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2048Megabytes
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What is your present budget? Upgrading to faster Pentium 4 will make very little difference in processing power with your system.
I already gave my opinion in your other thread but I would just save your money and buy a whole new system.
Do you have a Windows Operating System installation disk?
I already gave my opinion in your other thread but I would just save your money and buy a whole new system.
Do you have a Windows Operating System installation disk?
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I could save for a new system. but being only 15 its hard to find a decent job in my town. Parents aren't exactly happy giving me money for stuff they know nothing about.
Let's say I have enough for the best of both, which one to get for my 775 system?
Yes, I have a windows disk.
Let's say I have enough for the best of both, which one to get for my 775 system?
Yes, I have a windows disk.
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If you are dead set on upgrading your present system get the Pentium D processor. But before you do that, I would update your BIOS on your motherboard to ensure the Pentium D will work correctly when installed.
If you want a Pentium D processor look at one of the following models of Pentium D:
Pentium D 960, 950, 945, 940, 935, 930, 925, 920, 915, 840, 830, 820, or 805.
If you want a Pentium D processor look at one of the following models of Pentium D:
Pentium D 960, 950, 945, 940, 935, 930, 925, 920, 915, 840, 830, 820, or 805.
bomberboysk
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For the price of the best pentium D, you could get an am2+ mobo, and an athlon 7750 kuma...
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The computer store www.Mwave.com ships to Australia.
The AMD Athlon X2 Dual-Core 5200+ and GIGABYTE GA-MA74GM-S2 motherboard are $156 shipped to Australia. Cheapest Pentium D Processor I have seen is around $130. The Athlon 5200+ Dual-Core is probably a little faster than the Pentium D processors.
The AMD Athlon X2 Dual-Core 5200+ and GIGABYTE GA-MA74GM-S2 motherboard are $156 shipped to Australia. Cheapest Pentium D Processor I have seen is around $130. The Athlon 5200+ Dual-Core is probably a little faster than the Pentium D processors.
bomberboysk
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Actually the athlons are quite a bit faster than the netburst based pentiums clock for clock. After you overclock a 5200+ the pentium D is no competition.
bomberboysk
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I was referring to after overclocking the pentium D the athlon is still superior, as the pentium d's overclocked well but the athlon X2 is quite a bit faster clock for clock. The athlons had a much shorter pipeline so higher performance clock for clock. The pentium D prescottm had i believe a 31stage pipeline and had quite a bit worse performance clock for clock. The athlon X2 has a much shorter pipeline.
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Even the XP Athlon much less the Athlon 64 wiped the floor with the NetBurst processors clock for clock. It took a Pentium 4 at about 2.8ghz. to equal a XP Athlon 3200+ that ran at 2.2ghz. The Athlon 64 stuck its foot all the way in.
bomberboysk
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Yup, i remember when the p4 came out alot of people still bought p3's because the p4 was about 20-30% slower clock for clock.They should have developed further upon the p3(Which they did with the pentium M/core/core 2), but the problem with the p3 platform was the heat it created...
Yeap, the Pentium 3 + Pentium M + Israel = Core 2
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Interesting, I did not know the Athlon XP processors had more processing power than the some of the Pentium 4 central processing units.
My wife and I bought a computer with an Athlon XP 2200+ processor in August 2003. It was quite an upgrade from an Intel Celeron (700 megahertz) Socket 370 processor.
I know Intel manufactured Pentium 4 processors up until 2006. How did the Pentium 4 Extreme processors stack up against the Athlon 64-bit processors?
My wife and I bought a computer with an Athlon XP 2200+ processor in August 2003. It was quite an upgrade from an Intel Celeron (700 megahertz) Socket 370 processor.
I know Intel manufactured Pentium 4 processors up until 2006. How did the Pentium 4 Extreme processors stack up against the Athlon 64-bit processors?
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In some areas, up to 50-60% slower clock for clock. Core 2 was a HUGE leap for intel as far as speed was concered, they went with netburst to get more mhz out of the cpu. Im sure you've heard of the megahertz myth, this is what it was referring to.
They just bumped up the FSB and added some cache, But the Athlon 64 was so much faster clock for clock. By the time AMD started getting up to 2.6ghz. on the Athlon 64, Intel knew the end was near for the NetBurst, unless they want to sell them stock clocked like crazy, then you have the heat to deal with. Its days was numbered.
MixedLogik
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http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/cpu-charts-2004/3DMark03-CPU,434.html
You made me research this because I had no clue that the AMD dominated the processor benchmarks at that time. Interesting.
Yeah, the FX 51 running at 2.6ghz. beat the Pentium 4 EE running at 3.7ghz.
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I think you meant the AMD Athlon FX-70 (2.6 gigahertz) processor. The FX-51 ran at a clock speed at 2.2 gigahertz (but it probably still beat the Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 965 3.73 gigahertz processor).
No, the one in the benchmark was running at 2.6ghz. The FX-51 wasnt really a desktop CPU anyway or the FX-70. The last desktop FX was the FX-62