Gaming: Doom 3 and Far Cry 1.3
I ran the default timedemo, ‘timedemo demo 1’, three times on each resolution and quality setting, and took the average of the second and third scores. We ignored the first one as it was always much slower than the following ones as the game was caching textures off the hard drive.
This is a custom demo we use in various PCP articles, run three times and average the second and third iterations.
In Doom 3 our 820 processor was able to keep up with the much more expensive 840 XE processor as well as the Intel 550 processor. It can’t keep up with even the lowest Athlon 64 on our test bed, the 3500+ though. Far Cry shows similar results as well though at the highest resolution of 1600×1200 the 820 just didn’t have enough power to keep up with the higher clocked P4s or the Athlon 64s.
I hate this! I’ve changed my
I hate this! I’ve changed my AMD3500+ to this, and it sucks. My single core AMD is much much better than this.
You might not have “Hyper
You might not have “Hyper Threading” enabled in BIOS,…so it would be registering as Single Core in Window,..or a much slower MHz Dual,…The Pentium D 820 2.8GHz (Pentium XE 820) is a Pentium D “Extreme” Edition,..and in PC-Wizard 2010 Latest edition,..The CPU Benchmarks a full 1000+ CPU Marks Higher then the Athlon 64 x2 3800+,…I just put a “Spare Parts” System together,..something simple to run My Home Security DVR System,..had one of them laying around from parts I accuire from working on other People’s Systems as a Hobbie,…..and ran a Standard Settings CPU Benchmark,…and it scored 15825,…and the Athlon 64 x2 only scores 14799,…so it may just be a settings issue as it should DEFFinetly score higher then the 3500+
If You still have problems and need someone to walk You through any settings changes,..I’d be happy to walk You through it. bkweber64@hotmail.com GOOD LUCK!!
May 4, 2011? Why would you
May 4, 2011? Why would you upgrade to Pentium D this year? I mean, I upgraded from an Athlon XP 2800+ to the Pentium D the week it came out, and noticed giant gains everywhere. I still didn’t like the processor because it would overheat way too easily.
I bet you saw a performance dip in gaming. Pentium D can’t game worth a damn.
If you were looking for a cheap 775 processor, you really should’ve gotten an Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 1.86GHz. Those overclock to 3GHz easily. Even at stock speed, it’s still faster than the Pentium D 820’s 2.8 GHz at pretty much everything.
You should’ve known what you were getting into. Nobody buys these inferior processors except out of morbid curiosity.
Especialy if Your 3500+ is a
Especialy if Your 3500+ is a Single Core,…What CPU is it?,..Athlon?,..Duron?,..etc…just curious.
Is my motherbord intel
Is my motherbord intel D101GGC support Pentium D 820 Processor?
It should be
It should be fine.
http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/d101ggc/sb/CS-025906.htm
which is better . inter
which is better . inter pentium D 2.0ghz or pentium 4 3.0ghz
hi.
i want to know that which
hi.
i want to know that which one is better between Pentium D 2.8 GHz and Dual Core processor…and what is the price too.
plz. suggest me ….
thanks
They are both the same!.
They are both the same!. Pentuim D is dual core.
Is this procesor better then
Is this procesor better then intel core 2 duo 6420?
okay i have pentuim 4 dell
okay i have pentuim 4 dell optiplex 320,intel celeron 3.6ghz, i want to upgrade it to dual core, please give me the corect dual core or core 2 duo for my pc…