Intel's Pentium D(isaster) 

My Pentium D 830 was the only CPU that died on me without overclocking, I was playing Bioshock and the the game just crashed, I then noticed a burning smell and the PC just wouldn't start up again. After opening it up, I found my CPU had burn marks on them, luckily the MB was fine, so I got a Core2Duo, and was impressed how cool it was.

Whoever did the optimisation for doom 2016 is a god damn wizard... the fact that doom ran better than csgo and halo reach is amazing

Aah yes, the Pentium Doesn't. There's a reason why it's called that...

This had inspired me to make my own product.... Ladies and gentlemen I am proud to present the front halves of two aging Ford Mondeos welded together.

I threw a Pentium D in an SFF gx620 and sold it as a home media device. Dude later contacted me about a dead power supply.

I remember arguing with a mate because I told him his Pentium D is not the same as my Core 2 Duo. He said "but mine has also two cores" - "Yeah but they're both bad!"

I remember back then they were calling the Prescott the "PresHOT". And then Intel combined two of them into one chip.

I suggest you to also take a look at Intel's Celeron D(isaster). The Celeron D was essentially a crippled Pentium 4 with 75% less L2 cache, disabled hyperthreading and a slower FSB. The "D" in it's name might let you think, it's a dual core CPU, but actually, it's in fact just a single core processor. As a result, it suffered from severe performance issues. I consider the Celeron D to be much worse than the already awful Pentium D and Pentium 4, mainly because how poor it performed, compared to it's (Netburst) Counterparts and other CPUs at the time. But this should be obvious, since it was only a low-end and low-priced product. But still, that doesn't change the fact, how terrible the Celeron D was. Even for a low budget product at it's time, this processor was just bad. In today's standards, these CPUs struggels in almost every modern applications. This makes the Celeron D barely usable in 2020, unless for very basic office tasks. As a matter of fact, this CPU has aged so incredibly bad, that even a potato is worth more money, than this piece of electronic waste. In my opinion, Netburst was just pathetic and possibly one of the worst CPU architectures in computer science history. By the way, this was a awesome, informative and entertaining video, I really enjoyed it. Keep up with the great work. One can see that you put a lot of effort into your videos. I hope my comment wasn't a disaster though.

This is kind of where Intel is at again with their upcoming Rocket Lake CPU's. Based on the rumors so far, it doesn't really bring anything and is mostly just a rebranded Coffee Lake CPU but with more cores and a new socket, not to mention the extremely high TDP (around 200W if I remember correctly) for the i9 K series.

“My ex girlfriend loves the d... the pentium d” ghg

I drilled a hole through one of these (it is actually an 820), and put it on my keys.

I bought my wife one of these and OMG hot is an understatement! The cooler was a blower style and it sounded like a f18 at full throttle 100% of the time. I should know I use to work on them. Eventually a capacitor popped and in the trash heap it went.

I had one of the slightly lower model Pentium D in a Dell. Came with a MASSIVE heatsink. Lasted over a decade of daily use, for a couple of years I literally never turned the system off. Still worked when I sold it. With the right cooling, these things were just fine, and it did loads better than my P4 during multitasking.

We had a TON of these at work (training classrooms). It's sad when a 2GHz Core2Duo (or even a 1.8 Pentium Dual Core) ran circles around a 3.4GHz Pentium D. They ran Word and Excel decently though, so they stuck around for basic classes many years past when they should have been junked. Thankfully many failed caps on the motherboards reduced the fleet after a few years.

That epic pokemon mystery dungeon OST hell yeah, really clocking the nostalgia in this video

I bought a Pentium D for a potato. Literally.

You know the cpu is shit when the standard p4 can run Doom and the “better” p4D can’t run Doom

The ‘D’ stands for TDP

Man I would've killed for one of these back in the day in my Inspiron 8100. I think it had the Celeron D option, bare bones basic stuff. I had to get into the bios to up the VRAM allocation from 64MB to 128MB, but there was a system cap at 92MB... good God how frustrating.

Then Intel call out AMD for gluing together CPUs when they did it first and more literally

FYI, the Pentium-D's were sold for much less than the Athlon X2's. The notable one was the Pentium-D 805 ($132). The cheapest Athlon X2 was $350. It was a decent overclocker, and if you did a lot of media encoding, it was a very compelling alternative to single core Athlon 64's.

2:30 That was the time when Intel was paying OEM to not buy and sell AMD, right? Intel was practically giving the chips for free and paying some more.

Never was anything “cool” about those toasters,in any way.

Man the Conroe architecture was so damn optimised in terms of power consumption and computational prowess! So much so that the lower end Conroe chips were on par with the highest end Pentium D chips clocked much higher and having 4 times or 2 times as much L2 cache!

What processor did I have around that time. Oh right the AMD 3800+, one of the first if not first CONSUMER dual core processors. Sure it was only 2x 2Ghz... eh... but it was smooth like butter! Happy I jumped ship at that time to better technology. And... of course Intel had to make a new better product.

I've had a Pentium D 820 and my goodness it is literally a space heater 🤣runs really hot especially during summer haha The stock heatsink for these pentium D is really chonky, uses copper and quite heavy. But still it is not enough to cool it down lol And i'm crazy enough to actually finish GTA IV twice! with this system (uses 9500GT and 3GB of DDR2 RAM)

I had a prototype Pentium D on a prototype Intel board. Worked wonderful and was my main system for many years in the early to mid 2000s.

The Pentium D(on't)

Ah, the PrescHott days. If you could chill one it was incredible at certain numeric functions such as video compression (this was before the days of GPU rendering), but for everything else, it was lack lustre. If I had told my energy supplier at the time that I had one of these, my fixed rate bill would have increased dramatically I bet lol. The D805 was the prevalent variation that was best for overclocking. The low TDP (relative) allowed for a little bit of scope, but the scale-ability of the clock speed was pretty much moot. It just took more effort than it was worth. But the number crunching game, they worked and was actually worth it for that reason - in a very narrow aspect of computation.

Thats a heavy nostalgia, thanks.

Love the video! Keep them coming buddy

Glad to see you're back, I was getting worried!

The Pentium D(readful)

Yeeeeeeeeeeees You're back!

Hi Mr. Budget-Builds! Nice to see you coming back to action :). This videos of yours almost make me miss my old Dual-Core E5400. Almost.

Happy to see you back, great video

For maximum 'nostalgia', combine a Pentium D with Windows ME. You can have a D(isaster) of a CPU with a Operating system named after a debilitating disease :-)

This old cpu makes my G 4560 with ddr 3 memory feel like a rocket :D

Excellent video, as usual. Thanks!

great to see you back !

I had one of these in my first personal gaming rig in 2005ish. I was too young to really notice temps nor did I really care about benchmarks. It could run Battlefield 2 well-ish, so I was happy lol Then I got an E8400 Wolfdale and was blown away by that.

Do I hear mystery dungeon music? Niiiiice. A man of culture I see! :3

Hey Budget-Builds nice to see you kept your 3 month upload cycle

I was the product manager in a company that did PSUs and CPU Coolers back then, but it did improve those two techs (as well as M/B tech I imagine) so at least we can say some good came out of it.

That PMD music hits me with the feels.

Me in late 2008: Will my pc run great and cool? Pentium 4: Well yes, but actualy no.

I recently built a WinXP machine with the ASUS P5ND2-SLI, and a 3.4ghz P4 on the LGA 775 socket. The P4 is working like a charm, but since the motherboard doesn't support the Core2Duo line of CPUs, I was considering trying out a Pentium D since that was on the list of supported CPUs. This video has convinced me to not do that haha.

Interesting. Thank you for sharing.

Yeah i switched from petium d to athlon fx and i was blown away with how much performance you can get with it, while almost half the clock and running pretty cool. also its funny that a 100w processor was considered power hungry. every modern top tier chip is around a 100w, and might I remind you the fx 9590?

Am I hearing Pokémon Mystery Dungeon OST? This is awesome!!

A great video to come back with

I quite loved my PD build. only retired it in 2013. Never saw any of these gaming problems with mine, never had heat issues. Loved it and never in my time heard terrible things until now. Still love it.

"time per TERN" smh

It wasn't that bad. I have the d 805 it had significant multitasking advantage over my p4 back then. Sure it ran hot but it was no disaster. It still works as a second pc

Hey, what discord is that, that was sort of featured in the background video? I seen someone mentioning something about the temps on something, and I think that it would be cool to get in on the convo!

Ahh Grim Fandango music in the bg. I see you are a man of taste.

this was in an old XP machine i had a while back. I put an SSD in it and it was surprisingly usable, it even browsed the web fine. Its all about the bloat of the OS you load on it.

Lol lowspecgamer will love those GTA V textures :)

I had the Asus P5RD1-VM with LGA 775 on my old PC what other cpu choice did I have?

Did you manage to install 64-bit Windows, or does it only run the 32-bit version?

I do need to know how well it can use notepad.

pentium iii 800mhz gang (also literally first)

I remember sitting through Pentium D era on a single core Northwood, that OCd very well. While my friend struggled to keep his Prescott CPU running on stock clocks. D is two Prescott cores sandwiched on one PCB if I’m not mistaking. P.S. Have a 955 D lying around somewhere in the office at work

what benchmarking software do you use for games? like, the text in the upper left corner?

PMD music in the background. I approve.

The 805d was a decent chip for the money since it overclocked to nearly 4ghz. Was still a good upgrade from my 3200+ athlon xp and lasted until my overclocked e2160

Huh...good to know that I got one of the most volatile desktop CPUs out there. Just got a Compaq Presario PC a few days ago from a friend loaded with my first Pentium CPU (the Pentium D 925), so I've been hunting for information on it everywhere (especially considering my plan to put either Void, Arch, or 4MLinux on the thing). Thanks by the way, lovely video! ❤️

Intel did basically the same thing a bit later with the Core 2 Quad : 2 Core 2 Duos piled one on the other. Some old ideas were still judged as fine, I guess...

When your PC is worse than Pentium D

But, is it better than the Celeron D(isaster)? 😅

We had P4's at my old work until Sandy Bridge. I threw a Pentium D 940 into the motherboard and it ran really well. Honestly I think Minecraft ran slightly faster on the Pentium D than on an i5 2400, but that was probably in my head.

i'm glad i stuck out the three months :) looking forward to seeing this thing explode!

Lol I'm impressed by what that "Pentium" is capable of doing

A stupid CPU running really fast, that's exactly what the Pentium 4/D was. Even their mobile team put them to shame with the Pentium M (read: intelligent running slow). It was the time I went back to AMD, Athlon 64/X2 was far superior.

I tried to install a Pentium D (from an Optiplex 775 USFF, that I upgraded to a Q6600) in place of an early stock P4 LGA775 on a Dell Dimension 8400 (because the motherboard has literally almost no CPU upgrade options). Not only the motherboard will not boot, but it made the exhaust fans spin like a jet engine, ready for the Dimension to take off ground :p.

Which version of windows 10 were you running?

Pentium D(oodoo)

That time when Intel was like: "Pentium needs the D"

The Pentium D wasn't that bad at everything. That chip was a great replacement for the P4 Prescott for SETI crunching (the SETI project loved CPU's with large caches). I had one 930 cpu that ran 4ghz at the default voltage. I don't have the rest of the system anymore, but I kept that 930D and put it on a shelf. Some things you just can't part with (I kept my Prestonia Xeon's also (two systems) since those ran an almost 100% overclocks). lol If you want to talk about a bad chip, those Prescott's didn't overclock for beans and ran super hot even with a decent heatpipe and a 92mm tornado attached to it (yeah, my computer room sounded like half a dozen vacuum's were running 24/7). However, you were right about the Core 2 Duo being a much better chip. They would do the same work as the Pentium D at 60% of the clock speed. I didn't get to clock the C2Ds very far because of motherboard issues, but those were quickly replaced with Core 2 Quads. C2Qs were just Duo's squished together, but they worked and clocked pretty nicely. I had 4-5 q6600's and they all ran 3.6ghz with room to spare, but they did get toasty at those higher clocks (I modified the motherboards to cope with the extra power draw). The C2Q's also did very well with SETI. ...and then the i7 came out. My first one was a 920 c0/1 step cpu. It ran 3.6ghz and blew the C2Q's out of the water for SETI. However, shortly after that SETI moved to GPU's, so CPU's became a moot point. All hail the GTX 2xx series and 400 series for SETI. lol Anyway, thanks for the vid. It's nice to remember the old days once in a while.

Damn, I have one of these listed on eBay - it's been on for a few months - thanks for killing off that potential sale once and for all :D

Homer simpson after seeing the TDP :The Pentium D('oh)

I love the pentium d (said no one ever)

Great video. It's amusing I looked up the specs of the 2 older Dells I grew up with (500m and 700m) and both had a Pentium M. Guess I dodged a bullet there😂.

I remember I had a HP laptop with one of these in them. It could only run for about a half hour before it demanded to be shut off from the heat. That thing burned my knees so many times.

Pentium D inside - extreme smoke outside

When intel made a PowerPC G5 look more efficient and cooler.

Welcome back!

I want to upgrade the cpu and graphics card for my old 2006 pc, it has Celeron D with 512 MB RAM, 64 MB internal Intel graphics and Win XP can you recommend the best upgrade for this spec? Which proceser and graphics from 2007, 2008 or 2009 would work without any hiccups?

It's great to see you back, regardless of content.

I had one in a dumpster parts linux build using a point-of-sale pc as the foundation(2011). I just retired it in 2020.. the power supply was a trooper. My secret was adding 2 more fans to circulate the case, mounting extra heat sinks inside, resting the case on heatsinks(adding another to the hot spot) and covering the top of the case in heat sinks. It was absurdly pointless but it muscled on to crank out all kinds of work on gimp while simultaneously heating the old apartment in winter.

Is that the load save screen music from PMD RRT/BRT?

0:25 loving the Pokémon mystery dungeon music.

This video gave me flashbacks from the Pentium D era, not much progress was made on the lower end until the launch of Core 2 Quad

Just imagine how much of a disaster it would’ve been if they made the netburst quad core The Pentium Q Basically a sandwhiched together pentium d’s

hey friend why are you not using ninite in your fresh installs

I'm a bit late to the Pentium Party here, nice video! I actually ran a Pentium D820 for a while as my main system which at that point was an upgrade from a 3GHz Prescott P4. For what I did back then (playing a Counter Strike knockoff called Crossfire in combination with a HD5450) it was actually decent. Nevertheless it was not until I later upgraded to a Core 2 Quad when I realised just how slow the 820 really was...

The way Intel handled and put out the Pentium D was a sign of things to come of all the refreshes they'd make in the next decade before getting caught with their pants down by Ryzen.

I've been growing tired of people telling me to get something newer than my E8600. This video makes me feel a lot better!

I'm sure I hear a 'Sea Breeze' in the background...! Nice!

I love your videos, just a thing, before core 2 duo was core duo that was 32bit only