Whats better Amd Dual-core or Pentium D?

March 24th, 2007, 12:46 PM

im trying to figure out which is better for a LAN party pc ? any help would be lovely ^^

March 24th, 2007, 12:48 PM

i've never tried either of these but i usually find that AMD is better for the money. Although I've heard that's not as true as it used to be

March 24th, 2007, 12:51 PM

apparently they have started to use less cost-effective materials when building them.. so you cant overclock them too much.. whereas with pentium i tend to burn them out..T.T

March 24th, 2007, 12:53 PM

I'm on an AMD 64 2GHz, and have recently found I have room to overclock, but ive never seen the need.

March 24th, 2007, 12:56 PM

well the parties that ive seen have no room for lagging.. so i might need to run hd games and memory-hoggz like W.O.W. ^^

March 24th, 2007, 12:57 PM

if it were me i'd take the AMD route just to support anyone who isnt intel

March 24th, 2007, 12:58 PM

Pentium D's are an old product, your best bet would be a Intel Core 2. Fast desktop cpu's on the market right now.

March 24th, 2007, 12:58 PM

yeah..i heard they tore a village down somewhere to make room for a chip manu... plant.. so:P

March 24th, 2007, 12:59 PM

Oh.. maybe...

March 24th, 2007, 01:00 PM

What sort of video card do you plan on having with your system?

Intel Core 2's overlock quite nicely too, if you are into that sort of thing.

March 24th, 2007, 01:02 PM

im not quite sure of the video card.. im still kinda hard up for the cash.. so the first one will probably be a Radeon

March 24th, 2007, 01:07 PM

A good video card will be more important then a dual core CPU. If you plan on going to lots of LAN parties, I would suggest a minimum of a Nvidia 7600GT or an Ati X1600 Pro.

March 24th, 2007, 01:08 PM

but those would destroy my wallet...

March 24th, 2007, 01:08 PM

I'm running a pentium D, I can run photoshop, AutoCAD, surf the net, burn a cd and listen to music at the same time.

I'm pretty happy with it.

March 24th, 2007, 01:09 PM

Really...?
I cant even start up AutoCAD.. haha

March 24th, 2007, 01:09 PM

No more then a new CPU.

March 24th, 2007, 01:10 PM

What cpu do you have right now?

March 24th, 2007, 01:10 PM

true.. but my friends dad has two spare cpus from his new pc.. since he just got them and wanted to upgrade..