[Geek] Pentium 805D
May. 11th, 2006 02:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lprovenThis is a 2.66G £80 dual-core 64-bit Pentium that can be overclocked to over 4GHz if you watercool it, tho' it draws pushing quarter of a kilowatt in such cases. However, this cheapo chip will outperform the faster x86 CPUs money can buy if you push it hard enough.
http://tomshardware.co.uk/2006/05/10/dual_41_ghz_cores_uk/index.html
Anyone tried one of these things yet?![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
the_major wants to build herself a high-end PC for running CAD, and at this kind of price, it's very tempting to me to gut my unreliable old dual-2GHz-Athlon32 box and rig it out as an overclocked Intel machine - only the 2nd new Intel desktop chip I would ever have bought in my life. I've favoured Cyrix and AMD for over a decade now.
Anyone tried this? I haven't done any overclocking since the days of the 486 & Pentium 1, when I did it as a matter of course, but a performance hike of some 50% is too good to ignore. This chip looks like the best deal since the Celeron 300A, which ran like a dream at 450MHz and made dual-processor PCs affordable.
What I'd rather like would be a kit from someone comprising a P805D, a suitable motherboard, cooler and RAM. Getting a graphics card and suitable drives is not a real problem.
Suggestions, comments, hints?
http://tomshardware.co.uk/2006/05/10/dual_41_ghz_cores_uk/index.html
Anyone tried one of these things yet?
the_major wants to build herself a high-end PC for running CAD, and at this kind of price, it's very tempting to me to gut my unreliable old dual-2GHz-Athlon32 box and rig it out as an overclocked Intel machine - only the 2nd new Intel desktop chip I would ever have bought in my life. I've favoured Cyrix and AMD for over a decade now.Anyone tried this? I haven't done any overclocking since the days of the 486 & Pentium 1, when I did it as a matter of course, but a performance hike of some 50% is too good to ignore. This chip looks like the best deal since the Celeron 300A, which ran like a dream at 450MHz and made dual-processor PCs affordable.
What I'd rather like would be a kit from someone comprising a P805D, a suitable motherboard, cooler and RAM. Getting a graphics card and suitable drives is not a real problem.
Suggestions, comments, hints?
