Intel Core 2 Duo VS Intel Pentium D Vs AMD athlon 64X2

Keffinator

Keffinator

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Intel® Viiv™ Pentium® D 915 Dual Core Processor (2.80GHz, 800MHz,2x2MB

AMD® Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+

Intel® Viiv™ Core™ 2 Duo E6300 Processor

Which One Is Better????
 
Keffinator said:
The pentium D is near the top of its range. And what the hell is viiv?
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The Core 2 Duo is better then the X2, and deffinetly better then the Pentium D.

Wikipedia said:
Specifically, Viiv is a particular combination of CPU, mainboard chipset, software, Digital Rights Management and network card. It is intended for primary use as an in-home media and desktop platform with the ability to operate as a normal PC or as a hardware media player/centre - running applications, playing DVDs, CDs, MP3, photographs and games as well as subscription based (partially DRM protected) content such as ILoveFilm, Napster and SKY.
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Keffinator said:
Even though its bottom of the line?
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its not bottom of the line, its top of the line pretty mcuh. You may be thinking it is bottom because of its Ghz rating. However Ghz really doesnt mean as much anymore, higher Ghz does not make for a higher powered processor. The Core 2 duo range destroys most in its path :)
 
jimmymac said:
its not bottom of the line, its top of the line pretty mcuh. You may be thinking it is bottom because of its Ghz rating. However Ghz really doesnt mean as much anymore, higher Ghz does not make for a higher powered processor. The Core 2 duo range destroys most in its path :)
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well, ghz does matter currently, but soon enough the core count is just going to throw off the balance so much that the ghz will climb by itself, with moore's law of course. once we pack 4, 8, and even 32 cores onto a single processor AMD will be ahead of the game... why?? well because they're already designing an affordable way to pack two processors into a single pc... AMD and intel both come out with a way to pack 8 cores on a proc, and AMD is ahead because in actuality you can get a 4x4 motherboard and have 16 cores working for you...

then there's K8L which amd claims is going to be twice as fast per clock (FPU's i think) .... sweeeeet
we'll just have to wait and see i guess.
 
ghz doesn't really mean anything (what others have told you) the preformance is what counts, and the C2D is the top preformer out of all cpu's out right now, with the exception of some server processors i believe.

get the C2D, you'll be happy you did as it's preformance is top notch for gaming.
 
Keffinator said:
But the core 2 seems too low (ghz that is) for gaming
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you see, when you look at it in the ghz stand-point, core 2 duos have about 1.5 ghz with very low overclocking. multiply that by the number of cores and you have 3ghz effective working for you. now, when we get into the serious overclocking, say, 3.2ghz, then multiply that by two and you get 6.4 ghz. thats how it was explainded to me
 
Bl00dFox said:
Wrong.
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wrong, doesnt work that way unless ur utilizing 100% of both cores...

there are no games utilizing 2 threads, dual core is useless except u can run background apps on the second core.

it may be 3.2x2=6.4 one day. not now:)

its 3.2 ghz (lets say 2.9 with backgroudn apps) but on dual core u can have 1 core work on the prioritized things soly.
 
Bradan said:
wrong, doesnt work that way unless ur utilizing 100% of both cores...

there are no games utilizing 2 threads, dual core is useless except u can run background apps on the second core.

it may be 3.2x2=6.4 one day. not now:)

its 3.2 ghz (lets say 2.9 with backgroudn apps) but on dual core u can have 1 core work on the prioritized things soly.
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Some games do use multiple threads, but they are in no way efficient. For example, one thread may be the primary game thread, while the other, say renders the snow. If you looked at the CPU usage, you would see one core is not using it's full potential.
 
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