Pentium D820 (dual core)

BudBud Chesterfield, Va
edited December 2007 in Trading Post
I have a spare Pentium D820 (2.8GHz) that needs a home.

$50 shipped

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  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited December 2007
    Just to clarify, it's a Pentium D820. The "P4" name never included any Intel CPUs except single core.

    First series of Intel dual core was the Pentium D8xx series (Smithfield), followed by Pentium D9xx series (Presler), and now Core 2 Duo (Conroe).

    I edited your thread. You wouldn't want potential traders to think you were only offering an old single core. I've owned several D820s and I know them to be heads and tails better than any single core Pentium 4.
  • ThelemechThelemech Victoria Icrontian
    edited December 2007
    Leonardo wrote:
    I've owned several D820s and I know them to be heads and tails better than any single core Pentium 4.

    Would this fit in a motherboard (Dell computer) for a P4 630 3.0 Ghz HT 64 bit?
    Would it make 'that' much of a difference in performance?
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited December 2007
    It makes an immediate, noticeable difference with multitasking. It's also good with Folding@Home.
  • BudBud Chesterfield, Va
    edited December 2007
    Thanks Leo for the edit
  • ThelemechThelemech Victoria Icrontian
    edited December 2007
    Leonardo wrote:
    It makes an immediate, noticeable difference with multitasking. It's also good with Folding@Home.

    Thanks Leo

    Bud - I will let you know next week if I have come up with the spare cash ... if it is still available. When I know I' ll send you a PM.

    Cheers!
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited December 2007
    Would it make 'that' much of a difference in performance?
    That requires a subjective answer, which I will give. For me, yes, the upgrade was well worth it. Heavy multitasking was immediately more compliant and smooth. Folding@Home production on a per-computer basis doubled. For reference the CPUs I replaced with 820s were a P4 2.8c and P4 3.0c, both clocked between 3.2 and 3.5GHz. I had teh 820s clocked at 3.5GHz (may have been 3.6), full load.
  • allenpanallenpan ThunderBay, Ontario, CAnada Icrontian
    edited December 2007
    hummm, just a heads up i915/i925 or i910 will not work with P-D, since the SMP is disable on chip level, u need either i8xx (the bios much support it, example asus p5p800 (i865 with S775+P-D support) or i945/955/965/975+, if u put P-D in i915/925/910 u will not see the other core or not boot at all
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