Are there heat issues with pentium d 820?

I am looking to build a new machine on a low tight budget and so cannot
consider either of the new cpu's from intel & amd i.e the core 2 and the x2
respectively. Using the cpu charts on toms hardware guide I can see that the
pentium d 820 is by far the best choice in terms of the type of performance
I want, far better than the price equivalent amd cpu but what worries me is
all the stuff i have heard about heat problems with the intel chips, despite
the hours i have spent so far trying to find out about this i am really none
the wiser, I get the impression that it was more the standard p4's of higher
clock speeds that were the problem, an archive search of nz.comp on the
pentium d cpu and heat turned up zero hits so can I assume there were no
real issues with this cpu in regards to heat, I understand that it ran
hotter than the amd's but as long as it did not have problems with
overheating with standard cooling solutions etc..., instability, throttling
down because of heat.

Anyhow after spending much time trying to clarify this issue with my own
searches I am now hoping I can get some good advice here because my own
searches have been of little help, so if anyone has any good or bad
practical experience with the pentium d 820 I would really appreciate
hearing about it. By the way my current cpu is an ancient pentium3 500, so
that has been my last experience with cpu's etc... so this is why I need
some advice from people with more recent experience.

 

Honestly, there don't seem to be anywhere as many hardware folks here as
there used to be. Also, of the few there are, some (like me) haven't had
much recent experience. The group seems to be an extended Windows/Linux
discussion group of late and doesn't have anywhere near the attraction for
me that it once had.

May I suggest that you ask in alt.comp.hardware.overclocking and prefacing
it with OT? (Or searching Google's archives for that group)

Those guys have lots of knowledge about the heat output of different CPUs so
would be able to tell you how it runs stock.

Cheers,

 

Thanks I had tried google archives without much success so I will try asking
in the group you suggested, thanks.

 

You're welcome. I see you have one reply already. You *will* need a case fan
in my opinion. At least one. This basically goes without saying with any PC
that uses a 7,200rpm HDD anyway, they pump out a bit of heat by themselves.

Luck with your build.

 

The Intel Pentium D820 CPU is from their "Winter Warmer" line. Running at
2.8GHz x 2 cores it will generate plenty of heat. If it were me I would
wait for the new Core2Duo CPUs with the cheaper models getting boosted to
4MB cache for about the same price.

All non-Core2Duo Intel CPUs (except laptop CPUs) are well known for
generating heat. The Core2Duo CPUs generate less heat than the AMD CPUs.


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Thanks a lot for that but when i ask about heat i am not asking about heat
for heats sake I am only worried about whether it causes a problem i.e all I
want to know is can the cpu run under full load for extended periods without
overheating or throttling down to prevent overheating,

 

I would have thought it would be quite a long wait before the core2duo is at
the price a pentium d 820 is now, obviously i would love one of these new
chips but surely they must be sometime off at this price.

 

http://pchome.com.au/qld/index.php?cPath=21&osCsid=8baa991577a8a09644a2770322c5f358

 

I don't call at least a third of the cost again only slightly more
expensive, the d820 can be had for NZ $180 inc gst.

 

If you were buying a system that cost $900 and it would cost an extra $90 for
a Core2Duo instead of a D820 then that is only 10% dearer for the system. I
personally think that would be totally worth it for the cooler running and
considerably faster performance.

If you wait a couple of months you may find that the Core2Duo has dropped to
a similar price to what the D820 costs today. The non-Core2Duo CPUs are all
out of production and all new Intel CPUs are Core2Duo based. The 6300 and
6400 will be replaced with the 6320 and 6420 which will be the same speed but
with cache increased to 4MB. There will be new CPUs coming in for entry
level (I think E4200, E4300 and E4400) which will all be based on the
Core2Duo but slower FSB and clock speed.

--
Mark Heyes (New Zealand)
See my pics at www.gigatech.co.nz (last updated 23-Nov-06)
"The person on the other side was a young woman. Very obviously a
young woman. There was no possible way she could have been mistaken
for a young man in any language, especially Braille."
Maskerade