Intel Core 2 Duo E4600 vs Pentium D 820 showdown - Synthetic Tests

Here, the Pentium D will fight the Core2Duo in standard benchmarking programs. In this case, I'll be using Everest Ultimate Edition 4.60. Although synthetic tests can show the improvements from chip to chip, this is no way to find out how fast a chip is. To find out how fast the chip is, I'll need to test it real world style, aka gaming.

Here, I benchmarked the memory performance in the Pentium D and the Core2Duo. As you can see, the overclocked E4600 blazed through all the tests. While unsurprisingly, the overclocked 3GHz PentiumD did NOT managed to even keep up with the stock E4600, which is at 2.4GHz. This show's that the Core2Duo's architecture is far more efficient than the Pentium D's.Here, I tested the CPU and FPU. Again, the E4600 leaded the pack, while the Pentium D chugged along behind slowly. This is a clear indication that the E4600 is way faster than the Pentium D.
These are the temperatures for both chips. The cooler I used wasn't great, but good enough to keep both chips cool. But as good as the cooler may be, the overclocked Pentium D nearly hit 70 degrees Celcius, which is pretty hot.

Next up, real world tests !!