Woot! Good options come from that. You've just given it a few more years of life, especially if you consider the potential for some light overclocking.
Yeah the core 2's are light years ahead of the pentium D.
Grab a 4 thousand series (4300, 4400 or 4500) and up the fsb from 200 to 266mhz, check the memory divider so the memory stays in spec and you're ready to roll!
The 4000's can even be pushed well higher in many cases, too. Given the robustness of the Core2 line, I made overclocking my processor part of my plan. With nothing but an FSB bump paired with a small voltage increase, I was able to realize a stable 3.6ghz on my 2.4ghz C2Q6600. Due to some concerns about heat dissipation and goals of a quieter system, I dropped it down to 3.0ghz flat, but that's still a damned solid overclock with the only alterations to my system being an aftermarket cooler.
Those C2D/"Pentium Dual-Core" 4000's are remarkable in that they're typically higher-binned chips just marked down for the sale of volume sales. Stock, they're plenty fast for most uses. Overclock them a bit and they're on par with many higher-end chips for a quarter the cost (cache be damned).
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Grab a 4 thousand series (4300, 4400 or 4500) and up the fsb from 200 to 266mhz, check the memory divider so the memory stays in spec and you're ready to roll!
Those C2D/"Pentium Dual-Core" 4000's are remarkable in that they're typically higher-binned chips just marked down for the sale of volume sales. Stock, they're plenty fast for most uses. Overclock them a bit and they're on par with many higher-end chips for a quarter the cost (cache be damned).