Question About My Intel Processor

[BeaThemDowN]

I was wondering if this processor is any good

Intel[R] Pentium[R] D CPU 2.66Ghz 2.66 GHz 1.00GB of RAM

Also I want to know what else can i do to upgrade it itto get better performance and what is the average life time before it starts slowing down.

 

[BeaThemDowN]

can anyone answer my question.

 

[DeChache]

Its not a bad CPU the best place would probably to get a second gig of Ram and that fact you can put in any Pentium D.

If you would post the full specs of your comp (CPU,RAM, Mobo at least) and what you do with your computer and what about its performance you don't like. Will help us help you.(What is that from sounds familiar)

 

[MrWizard6600]

lol.

you need to hang out on these forums a little longer.

we need ALOT more info. here are the steps.

1: CPU-Z
go here. download it. run it. then A take a screen shot of it and post it here or B: tell us the info of the boxes.

2: Find motherboard info.
this can be done various ways but it really depends on who/where you bought it from. umm CPU Z can give you some info. occasionally DXdiag (start --> run --> "dxdiag") will give you info. if you can give me the name of the manufacturer, if its major, and the model of the computer. ill get this info for you.

3: Find ram info
This can be done by CPU-Z. the memory tab shows its MHz and timings. give us that info.

BUT overall. yeah the pentium Ds arnt bad. but that depends. the Pentium D 600 series was, pretty crappy. yeah it was two cores but it had difficulties actually deviding the threads, as i recall the early ones didnt even support HT. The Pentium D 800's were alright. the infamous (to amd) Pentium D 805 went to 4.0 GHz on toms hardware, on liquid, 3.8GHz on air. the D 900s are pretty good. they're no match for the Atholon X2's in most areas but they are two cores, and they are half decent procs.

You wont see serious CPU bottlenecking on either the 8 or 9 pentium D series, but on the 6 series you might.

 

[boshuter]

BUT overall. yeah the pentium Ds arnt bad. but that depends. the Pentium D 600 series was, pretty crappy. yeah it was two cores but it had difficulties actually deviding the threads, as i recall the early ones didnt even support HT. The Pentium D 800's were alright. the infamous (to amd) Pentium D 805 went to 4.0 GHz on toms hardware, on liquid, 3.8GHz on air. the D 900s are pretty good. they're no match for the Atholon X2's in most areas but they are two cores, and they are half decent procs.

Some of that may be true.. the 6xx series were not dual cores, the 6x1's were 64bit, and as far as I know, all the Pentium 4 6xx cpu's had HT. The 8xx Smithfields, and 9xx Preslers were all dual cores but only the EEs of those series had HT. Almost any decent 9xx Presler would do 4ghz on air. My 950 did 5.6ghz on single stage phase.

 

[BeaThemDowN]

Memory: 1022MB RAM
DDR2
Dual Channels


Frequency 266.0 MHz
FSBRAM 1:2
CAS#Latency 4.0 clocks
RAS to CAS#Delay 4 clocks
RAS#Precharge 4 clocks
Cycle Time (Tras) 11 clocks
Cycle TIme (Trc) 15 clocks

The name of the Processor is Intel Pentium D 805
Package: Socket 775 LGA
Technology 90nm
Voltage 3.088 v

Clocks

CoreSpeed 2660.3 MHz
Multipler x 20.0
Bus Speed 133.0 MHz
Rated FSB 532.0 MHz

Cache

L1 Data 2 x 16 KBytes
L1 Trace 2 x 12 Kuops

L2 Cache

Size 1024 KBytes x 2
Descriptor 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size

MotherBoard

Manufacturer Dell Inc. Rev: A2
Chipset: Intel i945G/GZ
SouthBridge: Intel 82801GB (ICH7)
Sensor: SMSC 7901

Cache latency computation, ver 1.0
www.cpuid.com

Computing ...


stride 4 8 16 32 64 128 256 512
size (Kb)
1 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
2 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
8 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
16 4 4 5 4 5 5 5 4
32 6 8 11 21 28 29 28 29
64 6 8 10 21 28 28 29 28
128 6 8 10 21 28 28 29 28
256 6 8 11 21 28 29 29 30
512 6 8 11 21 30 30 31 33
1024 6 8 12 22 34 38 44 47
2048 6 8 14 25 49 146 276 280
4096 6 8 14 26 50 144 276 281
8192 6 8 14 26 50 146 279 280
16384 6 8 14 26 50 145 283 279
32768 6 8 14 26 50 144 279 283

2 cache levels detected
Level 1 size = 16Kb latency = 4 cycles
Level 2 size = 1024Kb latency = 31 cycles

 

[MrWizard6600]

Some of that may be true.. the 6xx series were not dual cores, the 6x1's were 64bit, and as far as I know, all the Pentium 4 6xx cpu's had HT. The 8xx Smithfields, and 9xx Preslers were all dual cores but only the EEs of those series had HT. Almost any decent 9xx Presler would do 4ghz on air. My 950 did 5.6ghz on single stage phase.

i donno. i THOUGHT there was a pentium D 600 series. maybe im wrong

i know most of the cpus out there will do 4 Ghz on air, the point was a D 805 which goes for $91 can hit 4Ghz? thats pretty sweet.

 

[MrWizard6600]

k.

your motherboard chipset is 945. this is a reasonably old chipset. newer models include P965 and 975X. both of those support Core 2 Duo (commonly refered to as Conroe). 945P does not officially suport Core 2 duo

your processer is a smithfield Pentium D 805. this is about as cheap as the dual cores get. you can upgrade your system to any of the Pentium D 800 series, and i believe you can also upgrade to the Pentium D 900 series, but you may not get a Core 2 Duo. it simply wont run.

what you can do is replace both your motherboard and your processer. if you get a 965P board and a core 2 duo proc you can get a significant performance bump from as low as $350. If you wanna go extravagent you can get the Intel 975X chipset or the Nvidia 680i (note that all the chipsets listed before this one are intels, the Nvidia 680i is made by nvidia) are very nice performers, but getting the board alone is $300, and the cheapest Core 2 duo proc (the E6300) is about $240. but note, once you replace the motherboard your going to need a new version of windows.

the answer to your question "can i upgrade my processer" is yes and no. if you want to keep your current motherboard, you can, but you wont see significantly more performance. if you are willing to buy a new motherboard, new proc, and new version of windows, you can get a fair chunk more performance out of your rig.

ps, please excuse my poor spelling. this laptop keyboard is endlessly frustraighting.

 

[BeaThemDowN]

i guess you get what you pay for.

 

[MrWizard6600]

yeah exactly. Dell makes there own motherboards (or maybe contracts phenoix to do it) and they're aways terrible.

if you want more performance, your looking at a complete system overhaul.

 

[BeaThemDowN]

Next time i rather get mine built, or built it myself but don't have a clue how to.

 

[wee96]

i donno. i THOUGHT there was a pentium D 600 series. maybe im wrong

i know most of the cpus out there will do 4 Ghz on air, the point was a D 805 which goes for $91 can hit 4Ghz? thats pretty sweet.

Theres no such thing as the pentium d 600 series, pentium d's only come in 800 and 900, the 600 series are pentium 4's.

 

[StealthyFish]

Theres no such thing as the pentium d 600 series, pentium d's only come in 800 and 900, the 600 series are pentium 4's.

QFT, and coming from a P4 630 owner (me), and having played around with P4 641's and 670s, i can tell you P4 6xx are not dual core, the hyperthreading only tricks the OS into thinking it's a dual core. PD 8xx, PD 9xx, E6xxx are dual core..