Northwood P4 versus Conroe E6700

Salamander 2 · 12-30-2006, 06:47 PM

I have a Pentium 4 Northwood processor (3.2 GHz) at the moment. I'm getting ready to build a Conroe using the E6700 processor. I'm interested in opinions on how much different the E6700 will be in terms of speed, heat, etc..

nn_step · 12-30-2006, 06:54 PM

Clock speed wise it is gonna be slower
Heat wise it is going to be less
However the Conroe would probably give you much better performance in both single and multithreaded applications. Though if you are a gamer that isn't into Encoding and the like, a better graphics card would be a far wiser investment of money

m0da · 12-30-2006, 07:10 PM

nn is right
in general though, you will get better performance. The Conroe will outdo the Northwood at almost anything (except raw clock speed)

mzs_biteme · 12-30-2006, 09:17 PM

Ur kidding right???

~~Turtle 1~~ · 12-30-2006, 11:28 PM

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Originally Posted by mzs_biteme

Ur kidding right???

Ya they have to be kidding. Northfield O/C higher than C2D LOL! LOL! LOL!

I use a P4C 3.2 to brows with. and I love it . But comparing to C2D thats laughable. Now comparing to an AMD64 in gaming that runs multi threads. I would say its close. But X2 or C2D not even close. Not even at High res.

But high res. wouldn't show you the truth anyway. LOL!

DEVIL K-ce · 12-31-2006, 05:27 AM

C2D can easy destroy Your NW in all bench/aplications.

Heat hmm imho cool cpu for that speed and also not very hot when is overclocked.

Regards

Martin

madscientist · 12-31-2006, 05:45 AM

i had (and still have) a northwood 3.0@3.6ghz. now i have a c2d 6600 2,4@3,2ghz. and i can see the difference. not in benchmarks but in my day to day work. i use photoshop, corel, graphics mainly. large files. and sometimes/rarely video encoding/splitting. big difference trust me. app loading times, applying filters, rar compressing and so on...

Poodle · 12-31-2006, 05:53 AM

If you are planing on using Vista I would say that C2D will be well worth the money upgrading.
My E6600 feels faster stock than my old overklocked Toledo on XP 64bit...

I guess you are on a AGP motherboard? I would wait until I could buy a whole new system with a PEG slot.

Don't buy the E6700. Stick to the E6300 or E6400 with a nice and cheap 965 board like the DS3. If you can afford it go for the DFI Infinity 975X and an E6600 and two gigs of ram. For gfx I would go for a ATI 1950pro or something in the same price range from Nvidia.

I guess you want to overclock, if so the E6700 is overkill in terms om multipliers unless you got phase change cooling. A good E6600 can go up to 3,8 Ghz on air on a good board like the Infinity.

dnottis · 12-31-2006, 07:20 AM

This is like comparing a lawn mower to a Ferrari.

NickS · 12-31-2006, 09:49 AM

Yeah, pretty much lmao.

JoeBar · 12-31-2006, 01:22 PM

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Originally Posted by nn_step

Heat wise it is going to be less

I don't thing so. The key word is Northwood, not Prescott. Not that it maters much though...

Salamander 2 · 12-31-2006, 02:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Poodle

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I guess you are on a AGP motherboard? I would wait until I could buy a whole new system with a PEG slot. Actually, I have the Bad Axe 2 mobo

Don't buy the E6700....the E6700 is overkill in terms om multipliers unless you got phase change cooling. A good E6600 can go up to 3,8 Ghz on air on a good board like the Infinity.

I haven't overclocked before - I want to have that option, though I don't know if I will do it anytime soon. Is the E6600 easier to overclock than the E6700? If so, how?

nn_step · 12-31-2006, 02:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Salamander 2

I haven't overclocked before - I want to have that option, though I don't know if I will do it anytime soon. Is the E6600 easier to overclock than the E6700? If so, how?

Most Conroes hit a similar wall, about 3.2-3.5Ghz, Thus the lower stock speed the more overclocking room you have. (cheaper too)

cold_realms · 01-01-2007, 06:28 AM

I switched from a P4 Northwood core @3250 to my E6600 and even stock it creams my old P4, benchies, encoding, games, hell installing windows xp took 9m12s start to finish, there is simply 0 comparison.