Nevermind I guess I’ll just start technology bitching now since this is a new issue that really is driving me nuts.
About a month ago I got my hands on a Pentium D 840 with 4 gigs of RAM and an Intel D955XBK motherboard (I also got an Asus P5LD2 but I really don’t care about it.) All right, that’s all well and good, but here’s a little secret about the Pentium D’s—they’re fucking INEFFICIENT and they run hotter than Satan’s balls. I would assume Satan has hot balls. And not the “well damn those are nice balls” hot, the “OH GOD MY HAND IS ON FIRE WHY IS MY HAND TOUCHING YOUR BALLS DEAR GOD NO” hot.
Honestly, I’ve been pretty satisfied with the performance of the machine. My biggest problem is how awful the heat is. Right now I have this thing sitting with both sidepanels open, with a nearby fan blowing towards it. Check this out:
Seriously, this is hot stuff people. Granted, I’m pretty sure the temperature sensor on the motherboard doesn’t work (look at all the errors Speedfan is spitting out) but still, it’s pretty bad.
Regardless, Intel’s latest processors have run hotter than hell. Ever since Prescott, Intel has pretty much thrown thermals into the wind and built the hottest processors I’ve ever seen. In all honesty, the Pentium D’s run hotter than my old AMD T-Bird 1.2GHz box. Not to mention Intel’s rushed design of the Pentium D to compete with AMD’s X2 line of processors. Basically you have two cores sharing the 800MHz bus speed. And without an onboard memory controller, in order for this processor to communicate with the second core instructions must be sent from the first core, out to the bus to the memory controller and BACK along the bus to the second core, when the two are basically sitting nanometers apart.
That’s pretty bad, guys.
So the bottom line: if you were to pay full price for these CPUs, I have to laugh at you. You wasted your money.
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