• Should I get a Intel Pentium D processor or an Intel Pentium 4 processor.
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I don't know which one I should get. People say get pentium D others say get Pentium 4. And sorry if this is in the Wrong Section.
Why would you wan't a Pentium in the first place? Is your PC super old? In that case I recommend you just save some money and buy a brand new PC in the near future
How about neither and buy an i5?
Lets start of by you telling us your current specs and budget.
[QUOTE=FuryBlitz;25399760]I don't know which one I should get. People say get pentium D others say get Pentium 4. And sorry if this is in the Wrong Section.[/QUOTE] They both suck. Pentium 4 was a pile of crap on itself, Pentium D was no prize package either. I say for the amount of money you might put in for the Pentium 4/D, you can have a new AMD system with the possibility of upgrading to Bulldozer without buying a new motherboard ontop of the CPU (Like Intel).
[QUOTE=Richard Simmons;25400850]They both suck. Pentium 4 was a pile of crap on itself, Pentium D was no prize package either. I say for the amount of money you might put in for the Pentium 4/D, you can have a new AMD system with the possibility of upgrading to Bulldozer without buying a new motherboard ontop of the CPU (Like Intel).[/QUOTE] Lol wut? Up until very recently (6 months or so) I was still playing new games on my P4 rig and when it was brand new it took care of anything I threw at it. I love my P4
[QUOTE=Richard Simmons;25400850]They both suck. Pentium 4 was a pile of crap on itself, Pentium D was no prize package either. I say for the amount of money you might put in for the Pentium 4/D, you can have a new AMD system with the possibility of upgrading to Bulldozer without buying a new motherboard ontop of the CPU (Like Intel).[/QUOTE] P4 is one of the most used cpu's ever.
Pentium D is basically 2 Pentium 4's slapped onto the same die. No seriously. Pentium D was a pretty bad implementation of dual-core technology and was really just intels "think fast" response to the Athlon 64 X2. It produced a pretty bad amount of heat and didn't handle threads that well. To be honest you'd be better off holding back for a while and getting an AMD Athlon 2 [b]Quad-Core[/b] for about the same price you'd get a Pentium D used. (Athlon 2 X4 costs $99). You'll probably have to upgrade most of your computer, but honestly there really isn't much of a point spending about $60 for an antique Pentium D when you can get new quad cores for $100. P.S The Pentium 4 was good in its time (actually not all Pentium 4's were good, some versions like the dreaded Prescott produced terrible amounts of heat), but its so old, it would be pointless upgrading to it. You'll still encounter performance problems in CPU intensive applications.
I'm building a PC, I have the motherboard already, I can save money up to like 75 bucks. The motherboard's socket is 775.
P4 works amazingly well even for some modern games. But with the socket you have, get a quad core. You can find them for around $90-100.
[QUOTE=GunfighterJ;25407870]P4 works amazingly well even for some modern games. But with the socket you have, get a quad core. You can find them for around $90-100.[/QUOTE] The chipset might not be quad-core compatible. There was a lot of controversy back in the day when intel released the "Core" series right after Pentium D for the same socket as the pentium 4, but they required a new chipset to work, creating a lot of confusion. [QUOTE=FuryBlitz;25407637]I'm building a PC, I have the motherboard already, I can save money up to like 75 bucks. The motherboard's socket is 775.[/QUOTE] Honestly dude, its not worth it. Its not so much that you'll be limited to a Pentium 4, its that very few motherboards then had PCI Express support, and the ones that did only have version 1.0 which is much slower than the current revision. The problem with this is that you will be stuck with old AGP video cards, and most PC games today have gone way past those GPU's capabilities.
I have a $125 motherboard. Its a gigabyte motherboard.
[QUOTE=FuryBlitz;25409352]I have a $125 motherboard. Its a gigabyte motherboard.[/QUOTE] And? This changes my point how? EDIT: Your board [u]was[/u] $125, its probably not even made anymore.
Post the MOBO model.
Gigabyte S=series Easy Energy Saver Motherboard P31-ES3G. And supports Intel Core 2 duo. [img]http://i663.photobucket.com/albums/uu356/didien/motherboard.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.vipshop.bit2u.biz/cache/product_images/big/20090818/mb_p31_ich7_s775_atx_ga-p31-es3g_giga-byte_1096423_425_0_425null.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=FuryBlitz;25415663]Gigabyte S=series Easy Energy Saver Motherboard P31-ES3G. And supports Intel Core 2 duo. [img_thumb]http://i663.photobucket.com/albums/uu356/didien/motherboard.jpg[/img_thumb] [img_thumb]http://www.vipshop.bit2u.biz/cache/product_images/big/20090818/mb_p31_ich7_s775_atx_ga-p31-es3g_giga-byte_1096423_425_0_425null.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE] Well I must say, you at least made a good motherboard choice, it has full support for all of the core 2 series, including quad cores and extreme edition CPU's, as well as legacy CPU's like the Pentium D and 4 series. It also supports PCI Express cards, which is nice as well as DDR2 RAM. I would honestly save some cash for a while and purchase at least a Core 2 Duo, preferably a Core 2 Quad. Again I'm surprised, this is a surprisingly good choice considering most Pentium 4 motherboards only supported DDR RAM and AGP slots. Still, I would definetly get a Core 2 cpu, it handles multithreading much better and has 64-bit support. Source: [url]http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=2892#[/url]
Thanks for your help Box.
It's much better than a pre-core2 motherboard, but why did you even buy it in the first place? The core 2 CPUs are already outdated (ok they still make the low-end ones, but you might as well get an Athlon 2 instead), right now you should be looking at Athlon 2/Phenom 2/Core i3/i5/i7. I suggest you buy a cheap used Core 2 Quad and use it as long as you'll be satisfied with it's performance. But next time you're upgrading, PLEASE don't buy outdated stuff.
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