Pentium D's are crap, don't get one. Your best bet for a budget combo would be a Brisbane core Athlon 64 X2 and a cheap AM2 motherboard. The Brisbane core X2 is on a 65nm die, so it is an excellent overclocker...
Pentium D's are crap, don't get one. Your best bet for a budget combo would be a Brisbane core Athlon 64 X2 and a cheap AM2 motherboard. The Brisbane core X2 is on a 65nm die, so it is an excellent overclocker...-GeordiLaForge-
:| the pd 945 r 65nm 2 n achieve 4.2 or more speed, + they run soooo cool mine never ever passed 41 under load.
[QUOTE="-GeordiLaForge-"]Pentium D's are crap, don't get one. Your best bet for a budget combo would be a Brisbane core Athlon 64 X2 and a cheap AM2 motherboard. The Brisbane core X2 is on a 65nm die, so it is an excellent overclocker...r3351925
:| the pd 945 r 65nm 2 n achieve 4.2 or more speed, + they run soooo cool mine never ever passed 41 under load. That doesn't change the fact that Pentium D's use Intel's deep pipelining netburst architecture, which makes them crap for gaming. The 65nm X2 will overclock very well, and will outperform a Pentium D in games...
[QUOTE="r3351925"][QUOTE="-GeordiLaForge-"]Pentium D's are crap, don't get one. Your best bet for a budget combo would be a Brisbane core Athlon 64 X2 and a cheap AM2 motherboard. The Brisbane core X2 is on a 65nm die, so it is an excellent overclocker...-GeordiLaForge-
:| the pd 945 r 65nm 2 n achieve 4.2 or more speed, + they run soooo cool mine never ever passed 41 under load. That doesn't change the fact that Pentium D's use Intel's deep pipelining netburst architecture, which makes them crap for gaming. The 65nm X2 will overclock very well, and will outperform a Pentium D in games... ur right about that but not much of a difference in gaming, in my opinion they r the same, exept that pentium d's 65nm r much cooler.
If you have the gfx power to back them up, heres the kind of things you can expect: http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2795&p=16 Note the 5 consistently on the bottom, and the 3.73 XE is a $970 cpu. Use AMD for that price range.
[QUOTE="-GeordiLaForge-"][QUOTE="r3351925"][QUOTE="-GeordiLaForge-"]Pentium D's are crap, don't get one. Your best bet for a budget combo would be a Brisbane core Athlon 64 X2 and a cheap AM2 motherboard. The Brisbane core X2 is on a 65nm die, so it is an excellent overclocker...r3351925
:| the pd 945 r 65nm 2 n achieve 4.2 or more speed, + they run soooo cool mine never ever passed 41 under load. That doesn't change the fact that Pentium D's use Intel's deep pipelining netburst architecture, which makes them crap for gaming. The 65nm X2 will overclock very well, and will outperform a Pentium D in games... ur right about that but not much of a difference in gaming, in my opinion they r the same, exept that pentium d's 65nm r much cooler. Hmm, I can't say for sure, but the X2 should run cooler. It uses 30 less watts of power, which is where the heat comes from. Either way, I shouldn't have been so harsh against the Pentium D. Hell, I still have a single core processor. But for gaming, the 65nm X2 really is a much better choice...
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