Pentium4 3.6GHz or Dual Core E2140 1.6GHz

[Brim]

Sorry, I've been out of the loop for a while.

Both of the above are approximately the same price, but which would give the greater performance?

I know neither are fantastic, but it's to upgrade a 2.6 Celeron PC that needs to be cost effective and also won't be overclocked.

It'd be used for Media encoding and light gaming.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Teaf]

Definetly the e2140, and e2140 is pretty much fantastic when overclocked it's near enough as good as it's family that are £100 more I know you aren't overclocking but still, at stock it's a brilliant chip.

 

[lee87]

The E2140 is much faster than the P4.

If you are using a really old skt 775 motherboard then it might not support the new Core 2 Duos.

 

[hp7909]

E2140 will be faster because its dual-core & don't forget Core microarchitecture which has been reworked from the ground up therefore also more efficient.

Hope you have a compatible mobo? Not all Socket T (LGA775) can take C2D.

 

[Brim]

It's a (rather cheap!) Abit SG-95. It supports 800mhz Core Duo's so fingers crossed it'll work okay.

Thanks for the incredibly quick responses,

 

[Participant]

My 2140 is at 3.2GHz on the stock cooler and cost me £55 delivered 3 months ago.

 

[Neal]

e2140 will pap on the pentium 4 from a great height.

 

[hp7909]

It's a (rather cheap!) Abit SG-95. It supports 800mhz Core Duo's so fingers crossed it'll work okay.,

It does & even 1066MHz See here.