Pentium 4 comparable to c2d

[tommy_knockers]

W00t. My crappy p4 is getting a higher 3dmark06 cpu score than a stock e6400 and is just 130 points behind a e6600!

Yay! Made me feel better. Ok I do have it overclocked slightly.

Still Im also using crappy ram @ 533mhz so....


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On a sepearate issue, isnt it really annoying when oc have their this week only and its crap. I mean there is nothing nicer than having one or more good items that you think, damn thats good.

I hate it when they have crap (personal opinion ) and it has the feeling they are getting rid of old stock...

*finishes rant*


I was looking for a e4300 to be reduced

 

[melbourne720]

Orb links please?

They're not going to discount one of their best selling CPUs, especially not until Intel sell to them for less!

T.W.O. is pretty good, only bad when you've bought at the higher price!

 

[Gashman]

well i don't find that at all shocking, even the E6600 is only clocked at 2.4Ghz stock, your pentium is running almost 2Ghz faster

 

[melbourne720]

And since when has clock speed been the sole measure of a CPU's power?

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/cpu/charts.html?modelx=33&model1=430&model2=450&chart=177

Between 200% and 300% faster

 

[Gashman]

And since when has clock speed been the sole measure of a CPU's power?

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/cpu/charts.html?modelx=33&model1=430&model2=450&chart=177

Between 200% and 300% faster

well i know clock speed isn't the only important thing, but for example (i know its not conroe but bare with me) AMDs K8 was vastly superior to netburst, but a pentium IV with a sufficient clock speed advantage would beat the athlon, like his pentium would likely beat an athlon at 2.4Ghz, his pentium still scores less than E6600 at stock but not by much, thats not too hard to believe, as it does less in each clock cycle it has huge clock speed advantage. sorta like the difference between X1800XT with its 16 pipelines and 7800GTX with its 24 pipelines, the X1800 beat/or equalled the GTX through clock speed advantage

 

[The Laughing Ma]

Yeah but then you take in to consideration that you could OC an E6600 to 3.5Ghz and have a chip that is cooler and consumes less power than that P4 and is suddenly no longer just a little bit above that P4 but a hell of a long way ahead of it.

Mind you my Oc'd E6600 at 3.0Ghz scores more than twice what my OC'd 3.6Ghz P4 scored in 3D mark and does a 1Million Super Pi calculation in less than a third of the time.

Run Super Pi on that 4.6Ghz P4 bad boy I would love to know what time you get.