its a fact that the 3800+ overkills the pentium D 920 by far, (except in some multimedia encoding) but i still have a few questions about the two. my biggest issue is power dissipation. i saw a benchmark with the pentium D vs the X2 and the power usage for the intels were about 40 watts higher on idle. however the site said that at that time the bios of their motherboards could not support intel speed step technology and thus the intels could have done better.
i am wondering if anybody knows of a site with proper benchmarks where all features of the cpus are enabled.
the next thing is that the X2 are more expensive than the 920. i am wondering if amd plans to use a smaller nm technology anytime soon and is it worth waiting for?
just by the way info, i am planning to make another gaming rig so any tips would also be appreciated. this time i want to do more research because my current rig runs on a prescott core. the prescott had now been released and i thought it was cool that the price was so low however i realised after that prescott is anything but cool. its the hottest running cpu i ever had. its an insult to electrical engineering, what a horrible thermal design.
i am wondering if anybody knows of a site with proper benchmarks where all features of the cpus are enabled.
the next thing is that the X2 are more expensive than the 920. i am wondering if amd plans to use a smaller nm technology anytime soon and is it worth waiting for?
just by the way info, i am planning to make another gaming rig so any tips would also be appreciated. this time i want to do more research because my current rig runs on a prescott core. the prescott had now been released and i thought it was cool that the price was so low however i realised after that prescott is anything but cool. its the hottest running cpu i ever had. its an insult to electrical engineering, what a horrible thermal design.