Looking to buy a cheap pentium D

Why would you want a pentium D? Old, hot and under powered. Get something worthwhile.

Pentium D's I believe can be found in bins nationwide.

Pentium D = 2 - 4 MB cache and somewhat good performance as well as somewhat cheap. seen a Pentium D Extreme go for $64 on ebay.

Pentium D Extreme > E22xx and cheaper.

A e2180 at 2Ghz will most likely beat the crap of a pentium D at 4Ghz. And you can easilly hitwith OC 3Ghz+ on the e2xxx. It's like 5$ more than the pentium D you mentioned on newegg, and you will save that on electricity with time

E22xx will smoke Pentium D Extreme. Cache doesn't mean jack as compared to the clock per clock advances.

If I recall from another thread, he had one of the E2xxx and didn't like the temps and how he wasn't able to overclock on a stock fan.

So, why not get a better heatsink? Also, have you checked the cooler to see if it was seated right? Done any troubleshooting? Contacted Intel to see if there is a way to see if the chip is faulty? To be blunt, it would be stupid to go from a Core2Duo CPU to a Pentium D because of temp issues. They weren't called "Pres-hots" for no good reason.

ROFLMAO another case of the user not knowing how to install the 775 HSF correctly

that E1200 would probablty run pasivly with a pentium d heat block

LOL downgrade your cpu to a Pentium D good one haha, when you dont install the cooler on that new system properly you will realise what heat problems are

Cache means nothing, its more how its implemented and used etc - age old comparison - Celeron 400mhz (128k L2) vs P2 400 (512k L2) vs AMD K6-2 400mhz (1mb L2) - because of the implementation and design the Celeron 400mhz came out on top, same deal with Northwood vs Prescott, A64 vs Pentium D etc - specs are one thing, performance is another.

Please whatever you do next, dont say the pentium d is also running faster (GHz)

Question - if your Pentium D was so great, why did you upgrade to a Celeron E1200?

cause my house burned down from a bon fire down the street.

I agree, i am ordering (now as i type this) a E2180 and and arctic cooling freezer pro. I will get what i want this time (as long as it is not faulty).

Your CPU was not faulty Chaos... you can NOT reuse thermal paste over and over again after install. Thermal paste is meant to fill in the tiny imperfections on the processor and the HS base so that all of the processor is being cooled. You can not apply thermal paste then boot the computer up for more than a few seconds without ruining the thermal paste, you needed to use new thermal paste, that was all.

i used new thermal paste, re-read the thread.

Not hard to get 4 pins in 4 holes.

Pentium D is the slowest and the most stupid dual core made by Intel. It was thing of the past so be smart ChaosGS. Any athlon X2 can beat any pentium D.

you'd think that

Iv seen alot of cheap asus boards read E2200's @ 1 - 5ºc when the room temp is atleast 25ºc - 20+ºc or atleast 10x off, so the best tool i use to check temps is my finger - too hot to keep my finger on the hsf means heat issues etc (60ºc +)

lol no the pentium d is better cause "moire chache is better" just like TDP, Clock speeds etc



out of interest, is the AMD X2 still a better buy then Intels low end?

The average user who just wants a machine that works, AMD offer the best processors for a budget price tag.

I was talking about the average computer buyer who does not even know what overclocking is, but yeah Intel is better for people who do want to boast performance for free

I'm sure he just wants the RMA money...