mrfluffles
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to continue about different cpu's...
allendales do not perform as well as the c2d.
an e2160 is analogous to an x2 3800, overclocking aside. and overclcoking performance on an allendale will vary widely depending on the hardware used....typically it wont get much higher than its amd counterpart, if at all.
game performance (and all other apps really except for a few encoding applications) will be so close you cant even tell the difference, and yes, the 3800 will win sometimes.
so, yeah, an e2140 wont smoke a 3600, in any sense of the word. in the apps it does perform better in, the difference is miniscule.
excuse my statement in my previous post. you need to work on your social skills, though.
Lol. so now you bring my social skills into this. afaik, they're perfectly fine, maybe you could enlighten me though since you know all about my life, and no a forum is not a life. k, now to falsify everything else you just said..
First off, we're not even talking allendales here.. "allendales do not perform as well as the c2d." is almost completely wrong. Allendales (2mb cache) perform exactly the same as e6300/e6400 and NOBODY thought that the extra 2mb of cache on the e6600 actually mattered much if at all. Allendales did produce a bit more heat (since the heatspreader on allendales wasn't soldered on but rather thermal greased) so they couldn't overclock quite as high though but they could still get 3.0+ nearly all of the time.
Now on to the actual chip (kinda ironic how you mentioned that I wasn't talking about the actual chip before when now you did the same huh), it is untrue that they don't overclock higher then the amd counterparts. People are getting 3.6s on the e21x0 and yeah that's not on the stock cooler or anything but it's not water/phase/ln either. And 3.0 is cake.
Don't tell me that the 3600 is clock for clock as good as the e21x0. check this out:
X-bit labs - New Budget Dual-Core CPUs: Intel Pentium E2160 and Pentium E2140 (page 14)
at 3.4ghz the e21x0 beats out the x6800(4mb cache 2.93ghz) SIGNIFICANTLY in 90% of the benchies. At 3.2, probably about equal and at 3.0 a bit slower but not too far behind. And don't tell me that a 3.0ghz x2 3600 is ANYWHERE close to a stock x6800
could go on and on...... but for the sake of saving my precious time to slit my wrists in the corner because of my non existant social skills i'll just leave it at that