Whats Better Pentium D Or Pentium 4?

Question

The Title lol

Answer 1

My god there is a lot of bad information on here. Lets clear up a few things, the Pentium D is NOT and AMD, are you kidding. All Pentium Ds are dual core, not some. (What do you think the D stands for). And this compatibility thing, I have no clue what that is about, I read through that and I suggest you just disregard that entire ramble.

Now the main thing is the Pentium D is dual core and the Pentium 4 isn't. Aside from some other minor stuff, that is the main difference. As one guy mentioned, the Core 2 Duos are better, but between the two you listed, go with the Pentiumd D for the dual cores.

EDIT: I read through that compatibility ramble again, and I must comment. If it is compatibly with P4, it will be compatible with the Pentium D, period end of story. Again, for anyone that read that, please ignore it, it is filled with very bad information that can be very misleading.

Answer 2

Dpends on things.

Pentium 4 has more compatiblity. In the end that's really what seems to matter most.

Think of it this way,.. if you have Hardware or Software that is developed specificly for P4 then it's going to work with a P4 with no problems (in this senerio). But if any one thing turns out to not be compatible with a PD... then it's "broken" or you might not be able to use it anotherwards. No,.. not always,.. it may just act up.

I have been trying to help alot of people out with Video games based on this lately. If you want to play certain Video games it is required to have a certain Video card (or one of two certain ones). I did not have one and some people I knew did not,.. the out come is the game completely won't work (alot of software is built around two specific lines). Some people thought they had some cooler Video Card because it was newer and hyped up,.. but it: a. didn't work with the game(s), b. did not work properly, or c. suddenly failed to work usually after an upgrade.

So if your interested in the most compatiblity... pick the P4. Ignore that PD is currently paying to look cool and donateing a computer to get credit to look cool. That's not proof of compatiblity. Read over whatelse you want and check if they are built for or compatible with P4 or PD. Also do a ton,.. tons and tons,.. of research on whatever Mother Board your planning to get. Some mother boards suck or aren't compatible in any combonation that makes sense. Make sure RAM/Memory is easy to get, too. Lately (the last couple years) Memory and Mother Board companies have been makeing things compatible with only each other and barely any other required hardware... then on top of that they might have a low life expectancy... so even if it's half the price of the other memeory it's not worth it if you have to replace it atleast 4 times a year because it keeps messing up or breaking.

Added: I agree with Phoenix Enigma,.. if you can go get the Core 2 Duo. I know someone that was working on processors like that. They took a long time to work on the Core 2 Duo to make it probably the best pre-tested and perfected procesor BEFORE RELEASE.

Answer 3

Pentium D is better, being a later product with x64 support. Some are also dual core (8xx and 9xx models, I believe). However, both are built on the 'NetBurst' architecture, which is crappy. Core 2 Duo CPUs aren't much more expensive and currently destroy every other CPU on the market for performance. AMD's Athlon64 and X2 CPU's would also be better then either of the Pentiums.

Answer 4

Pentium D is better than Pentium 4.

No - a "Pentium" processor I'm pretty sure is NOT AMD...

Answer 5

Aren't they both the same - or very similar?
Pentium D is an AMD processor and Pent 4 is an Intel Processor -- I think!

Answer 6

D