Hi,
beside lower power requirements, is the Pentium G2030 a faster single/dual core cpu compared to the Core2 E8600? Or the differences will be not interesting enough to build a new computer around it?
Thank.
At a guess the G2030 would be marginally faster (mainly due to the integrated memory controller) and significantly more energy-efficient at idle, but if this system isn't running 24/7 and you already have the E8600 up & running I certainly wouldn't consider it worth replacing, particularly not if you still need to get motherboard and DDR2 RAM for it.
Neither sounds particularly retro - what are you doing with the systems? Maybe that might swing the balance somehow...
E8600 can be overclocked though.
I must be some kind of standard: the anonymous gangbanger of the 21st century.
wrote:At a guess the G2030 would be marginally faster (mainly due to the integrated memory controller) and significantly more energy-efficient at idle, but if this system isn't running 24/7 and you already have the E8600 up & running I certainly wouldn't consider it worth replacing, particularly not if you still need to get motherboard and DDR2 RAM for it.
Neither sounds particularly retro - what are you doing with the systems? Maybe that might swing the balance somehow...
It's my main home office machine. I already built the E8600 with a 4GB dual-channel DDR2 5-5-5-15 rams also watercooled, but even if nothing seems broken sometimes I get errors in Linux that seems related to memory ram problems while the ram is ok tested with memtest. I suspect some compatibility issue with the ram.
So I was thinking if to switch to this G2030 with a single 4GB 1333 memory or to debug this problem on this machine. But the G2030 is not enough retro so maybe I could rebuild the Pentium 4 Prescott machine I already tried lately as main config. 😁
