Pentium D vs Pentium 4

[Durjaya]

Hello friends,

Today in my college i had a debate with my friends that Pentium 4 is good as compared to Pentium D. He told me Pentium D is very good and we had a very long discussion which was going on for more then 1 hour and he was not ready to give up. Any one tell me about there experience about both the processor or proide me some information about Pentium D vs Pentium 4.

[Capers]

Pentium D is a dual core processor from Intel so I would say that it is much more faster then Pentium 4. Although I don't know how much a dual core and if you are going to play games on it then i would recommend you to buy AMd processor instead of Intel because in gaming Amd processor are one of the best and Intel cannot compete them.

[Sophia]

No one would like to have old technology everyone would like to have latest technology because there would be some adds on in Pentium D as compared to Pentium 4 and according to me the performance is about the same as a single core when using single or a couple apps. A far as worth it in price, I do alot of multitasking. So for me it is a bonus. It is a lot cheaper than buying a dual processor MB and a pair of CPUs. I do see a trend on Dual Core Processors. Another plus is I'll be set when Vista comes out. Of course I'll probably sell this setup in about 6 months.

[Aarpitt]

If you don't have much more budget then you can even go for Pentium 4 because it has some good features like Versatility, performance and reliability to meet all your computing needs, Greater performance with Hyper-Threading Technology, Scalability and performance with Intel 64 bit and Execute Disable Bit can prevent certain classes of malicious "buffer overflow" attacks when combined with a supporting operating system.