Is the Intel Pentium D 930 actually worth buying?

**MrTeressaBond** · September 26th, 2006, 20:23

im sure you lot can agree that the Pentium D's are not all bad.

the Intel Core 2's are more or less newer versions of D's and D's can do very well.

i myself is not exactly an extremeness, bu i would like just to take that part into the Pentium D's and i was hoping u lot can help.

thus the C1 Core stepping helps alot asew,, as unlike older versions of the 900 series of the D's which run at 135W, the C1 core stepping runs at 95W and i assume it would help alot wen it comes to overclocking.

**Morph** · September 26th, 2006, 21:32

Well, if you want the much more expensive chip to run at 4Ghz, be my guest. Whereas, the Pentium D 805 is only $130.

You see, what makes the Pentium D's suck so bad is 2 things:

1. Built on NetBurst architecture, which is $#@!.
2. The way Intel implemented dual-core on the Pentium D's means that half the time one of the cores is starved for bandwidth. They perfected dual core in the Core and Core 2's.

I'm telling you though, it's a world of difference. But, do what you wish, I'll lose no sleep over it.

**semicolo** · October 4th, 2006, 23:44

netburst and core architectures are very different, core processors don't come from pentium Ds.
The Pentium D isn't a bad processor in itself, but a core 2 duo seems better for all the reasons we gave above.