I bought one when they were $1200. Returned it because I couldn't get a it's native res (1366x768) to work from my htpc or laptop (6600gt and radeon 9600). This was over the DVI > HDMI and VGA connections. For $1000, I probably would have kept it, my Xbox 360 looked great on it.
There's some...
What are you asking people to refute? That the Pent D 805 is faster? It's not. That's it doesn't generate more heat? It does. That it takes more power? It does. That it's a cheaper option, at least initially? Well it is..
Some of us have to make our immediate dollars stretch farther and can't buy $250 Yonahs :)
But come on, the whole point here is how does a Pent D (805) compare. It takes more power, and overclocking is never guarenteed. But it's cheap and isn't that bad of a performer.
That's all my point was. I like my X2 3800 a lot, it was cheap, takes little power, runs on a so so motherboard, and at near 4800+ speeds (2.4GHz).
But I needed an HTPC box and on a budget, I don't think the Pent D 805 is that bad of a choice.
It was a Frys special, Antec SLK1650. $59 - $30 MIR, you can probably find the deal in the forums.
Stock vcore. 57'C load temp, two instances of Prime95. EVGA 6600GT. Maxtor 160GB 5400rpm drive. Asus P5SD2-X motherboard. Prime95's been running for ~24 hours.
Maybe I got a good one, but...
Just curious, what do you guys pay for power? In Seattle, we pay 8.39¢ per kWh, over the initial 10 kWh per day.
Also, how much power do you think both procs take? Can we compare a oc'd X2 3800 to an X2 4800 and an oc'd Pent D 805 to a Pent D 840? If so looks like the Pent D 840 is ~90 watts...
I'm kind of a budget guy, so part of my X2 limitations might be my ECS NF4 board.
X2 3800 + ECS 939 NF4 board (Fry's special) = $305 incl tax
Pent D 805 ($135) + Asus P5SD2-X ($69) = $215 shipped
So not quite twice as much.. but I still like them both.
I have a so so X2 3800 and a decent Pent D 805. The X2 is oc'd to 2.4ghz, the Pent D to 3.4ghz, both on stock cooling. I don't game much, so all I really care about for speed is xvid encoding. The X2 is about ~10-15% faster.
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