Hi guys, I just want to know how much do you think I will gain term of performance and speed for a Pentium D930 (3.2Ghz) over a Pentium 4 Prescott 3.6Ghz. Thanks guys, I am just wondering I am not going to upgrade it. by the way, it will also run at 64bit for the CPU because I have a 64bit support motherboard. Thanks

If you want to run games, you will not gain performances since games does not offically support dual core... However if your doing multimedia like ripping music + burning cd + downloading + gaming at the same time, then dual core will help... But P4 already come with Hyper Threading so the gain will not be as significant as athlon x2 series... Other than that, Pentium 900's series are 65nm compared to prescott 90nm resulting higher overclocking... If you planning to o/c, then 900's pentium is the way to go... TMP-Man Asus A7V classic rev 1.05 Athlon XP 2100+ @ 129x17 = 2195Mhz 1.81v 768MB PC133 RAM @ 129Mhz 2-2-2 40GB 540RPM + 120GB 7200RPM HD 128MB Radeon 9500 mod 9700 @ 300/300

Yes I do know that, the issue I am really concern at this point is the heat on my P4 3.6Ghz, its too much and its slowing down you know since the higher the temp the slower intel CPU is gonna run to avoid restart/failure

Things you can do to cool down your CPU... 1. Remove old thermal paste and apply with Artic Silver V... (upto 10 degrees in C difference) 2. Setup good air flow like 1 intake fan below the hard drive and 1 exhaust fan below the power supply or more.... 3. Vaccum any dust in your case espeically on fans and heatsinks... 4. Get a better heatsink that has lower than 0.35 C/W (Meaning suppose you run your computer at room temperature 20C, +5C for case temperature = 25C and ur P4 has peak 100 watt heat dissipitation... 0.35 C/W will give you roughly 25C + 100x0.35 ~ 60C at full load... But if your heatsink give u 0.55C/W, then you will get 25 + 100x0.55 = 80C resulting overheating for P4 = throttle down....) 5. Lower your vcore by 0.1v to see if its still stable... Lower voltage = lower power consumption = lower heat.... TMP-Man Asus A7V classic rev 1.05 Athlon XP 2100+ @ 129x17 = 2195Mhz 1.81v 768MB PC133 RAM @ 129Mhz 2-2-2 40GB 540RPM + 120GB 7200RPM HD 128MB Radeon 9500 mod 9700 @ 300/300

I know all of the already, I just don't want to spend money on another heatsink/fan. I am just using the stock one.. the temp is not so bad but when I start playing game it reaches above 70 and I can feel that its slowing down a bit. I have a good air flow setup on my comp, two 80mm fans on the back, one 120mm on front. another 80 on the side

Ok, then live with it TMP-Man Asus A7V classic rev 1.05 Athlon XP 2100+ @ 129x17 = 2195Mhz 1.81v 768MB PC133 RAM @ 129Mhz 2-2-2 40GB 540RPM + 120GB 7200RPM HD 128MB Radeon 9500 mod 9700 @ 300/300

Yes I know : ( that's why I am trying to get a free Pentium D 930 :P, the P4 3.6Ghz still cost like 100 bucks more than the Pentium D930