Pentium D 945 performance?

[Cartho]

Hi all
I cannot run Conroe (*bursts into floods of tears*) and do not have the cash for a full motherboard upgrade (and it is a Dell, and I don't think they agree with full motherboard upgrades )

I CAN however upgrade to a 3.4 GHz Pentium D - the main reason for me doing so would simply be to get a dual core system, which is much better in new games etc.

What I want to know however, is how fast the Pentium D 945 3.4 GHz really is.
What kind of benchmarks could I expect?
What kind of overall performance could I expect?
I know it is nothing like a Core 2, and that a Core 2 will rip it to shreds and then wee on it - but I simply cannot do Core 2 and so this is my best possible CPU upgrade....

Any responses would be much appreciated.....

 

[steve258]

Nothing wrong with Pentium D really, should still give you good performance in games coupled with that 8800GTS.

In single thread applications it will perform just like a P4 3.4Ghz. recently built a rig for my mate with the same CPU and it did 40 Secs Super Pi.

 

[HeX]

The Preslers were far better than the 8XX series, they are die shrunk to 65nm so run far cooler, and they clock like beasts, they break 4Ghz easy.

However they are basically 2 x 2M Prescotts, so you are only going to get Prescott performance.

Theres a good article here showing C2Duo Vs. PentiumD Vs. AMD X2's:

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/print/core2duo-shootout.html

 

[Cartho]

ok cheers guys....

 

[lay-z-boy]

Preslers are very good cpu's, got a 930d myself, (xx5 series dont have VT though) can do 4.5ghz but even at stock it is no slouch (runing x64 & mutlithreaded apps)

Expct windows to run smoothly no matter what you throw at it, anything multithreaded like compressing, decompressing, encoding, imaging and a few games to get massive boost.

 

[Cartho]

Thanks Lay Z