Pentium D 805 (The Uber One)

gline

gotta get me some ddr2 now
getting this tomrrow
(first one on the page)

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_DDR2_Memory_401.html

is it any good? is there any better for that price?

conzy

And you can get a perfectly stable Overclock, because you are not passing 200mhz so as far as the chipset is concerned your running at stock....

unklerosco

Me thinks im going to "invest" in one of these n build a vid editing pc with it... €130... bargin ;-p

gline

unklerosco wrote:

Me thinks im going to "invest" in one of these n build a vid editing pc with it... €130... bargin ;-p

yeh komplett have shipped mine, for that price you CANT lose

B00MSTICK

Your a disgrace to your avatar gline, shame on you.

gline

B00MSTICK wrote:

Your a disgrace to your avatar gline, shame on you.

myalligience lies to the best overclocking chip, i dont ggive a crap who makes it

anyway my other system is a 146 :rolleyes:

Darwin

I believe you don't have to chuck out your old DDR RAM if you're planning on going this route - the Sapphire PURE CrossFire II mobo is an LGA775 board that uses DDR RAM. Unfortunately it doesn't support vcore adjustments, but this chip will hit 3.6Ghz on stock? Anybody think it a worthwhile upgrade to go from a P4 Northwood (@3.5Ghz) to this? Thanks...

gline

Darwin wrote:

I believe you don't have to chuck out your old DDR RAM if you're planning on going this route - the Sapphire PURE CrossFire II mobo is an LGA775 board that uses DDR RAM. Unfortunately it doesn't support vcore adjustments, but this chip will hit 3.6Ghz on stock? Anybody think it a worthwhile upgrade to go from a P4 Northwood (@3.5Ghz) to this? Thanks...

definitly as this cpu is dual core, and 1 meg cache per core, so that would be 3.6ghz on each core

Darwin

Right you've twisted my arm, dual core it is then:D Now I need to find a buyer for my Northy!

fullerand

noob question, sorry... any advice appreciated...

I picked up a Medion PC at Aldi a while back . CPU is a described as: "Pentium D Dual Core Processor 830 3.0GHz, 2 x 1MB L2 cache, 800MHz FSB. Extremely low noise due to new BTX form factor with optimised air stream, heat pipe cooler and quiet fan."

As far as I can tell from that article, its clock multiplier is x15. Does this mean it would be worth overclocking this CPU? Would it def require extra cooling?

If it's relevant, I have 1GB of RAM, which is DDR2-533MHz SDRAM.

I see lots of Pentium Extreme screenshots in the article - is this info only available for certain CPUs?

cheers

DemonOfTheFall

If you could find a program which would tell you what temperature the processor runs at at the moment you'd have a better idea of how well it would overclock.

You'd also want to check out what power supply is in it. A Pentium D at 4.1ghz is meant to draw 250 Watts +. I don't think it'd be worth the speed to be running a heater like that in my room.

Darwin

Does anyone know if this Sapphire motherboard will support the Pentium D? I've tried their website but it doesn't say! There's not much info on the web either as it seems to be a newish board.

Psycopat

Carefull now the 805 isnt very good for games, the FX-60 will rip it apart in that department, the 805 is better for video encoding if thats what ya wanna do

plonk

Psycopat wrote:

Carefull now the 805 isnt very good for games, the FX-60 will rip it apart in that department, the 805 is better for video encoding if thats what ya wanna do

Sorry but this thing clocked at 4.0ghz is better than an FX-60
Read the article
http://tomshardware.co.uk/2006/05/10/dual_41_ghz_cores_uk/page31.html

Psycopat

plonk wrote:

Sorry but this thing clocked at 4.0ghz is better than an FX-60
Read the article
http://tomshardware.co.uk/2006/05/10/dual_41_ghz_cores_uk/page31.html

as far as i can see there its only better at Quake 4 and the FX 60 was better at rendering. how much would you spend on cooling to overclock to 4.1GHZ, buying different ram and a motherboard?

unklerosco

FX-60 is €1070

Intel chip - €140
Mobo - say €160-200
Ram - say €150 for 1gig
Watercooling - €150-200

Total €600-700 for a full FX-60 equal or €1070 for an FX-60 alone... The items i piced are €641
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so u still have €359 to spend..
Case
PSU
GFX
DVD

Total €1158... €88 more than an FX-60...

There's ur answer..

TempestSabre

We've been discussing this for ages over here...

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17548523

B00MSTICK

Who in their right minds buys FX60's anyway (no offence wizz) You should compare it to overclocked 3800 X2s or Opteron 165 which can get to 3ghz. They are more expensive (mine cost 250 was meant to be OEM but i got it retail). So your getting maybe 5 extra frames tops.

Dont get me wrong it looks like a great chip and if I had the coin id be interested in buying one aswell. Intel are definitley back on track anyway. Its just not as amazing as people are making out though.

Looking at tha oc.uk forum shows that at 3.85ghz his load temp is 55C on water. His SANDRA scores are muck compared to my opty @ 2.8 on stock hsf (44C load) Of course this is just one persons chip the results will vary, 4ghz on air? Not bad for 140 quid though. Still DDR2...

gline will give us the run down when he gets his I hope.

WizZard

B00MSTICK wrote:

Who in their right minds buys FX60's anyway (no offence wizz)

:o

conzy

Noone should switch to a Pentium 4 no matter how overclockable or cheap it is.

This is the Pentium 4's last stand and Intel are just getting rid of stock.

A 4ghz P4 still gets whooped by overclocked Athlon 64s.....

So, Everyone, together.

"I pledge allegiance to Advanced Micro devices......"

awhir

just wondering whats the most you can overclock a fx-60 to with lets say a mach 2 or somthing like that

conzy

4.1ghz or something is the world record for an athlon 64 (FX-57 i think)

But ask Gline, he will know.

My guess is ~3.4ghz

But I have 3ghz with air:p

awhir

nice.

gline

ah tbh an overclocked fx60 would whip any oc'd intel chip but it is just too expensive

see jes are selling am2 boards now :eek:

conzy

AM2 boards are just re hashed S939 boards, they have been around for ages, even DFI have one, and they are usually months late......

But whats the price like?

Ok, I looked myself

http://www.jes-computer.de/product_info.php?pID=23841

Only ~€70 with a very nice chipset cooler....

gline

conzymaher wrote:

AM2 boards are just re hashed S939 boards, they have been around for ages, even DFI have one, and they are usually months late......

But whats the price like?

sae as 939, i hope amd dont make a mistake with am2, it looks like they are :mad:

conzy

Hopefully they will pull some inovative cat out of their bag.......

Because the first batch of CPUs are just 939 cpus with an extra pin:(

Hopefully they will scale very nicely with 65nm. imagine a 4ghz X2:eek:

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gline

conzymaher wrote:

Hopefully they will pull some inovative cat out of their bag.......

Because the first batch of CPUs are just 939 cpus with an extra pin:(

Hopefully they will scale very nicely with 65nm. imagine a 4ghz X2:eek:

</dream>

true, we can all dream anyway


ah i havent given up on them
death to intel is what its all about "says me who just bought an 805"
My wallet said yes my heart said no.... my wallet won

WizZard

The reason I got an FX-60 was so that I could eventually stick a Mach2 on it So I will keep it when I move to AM2 next Spring

gline

il stick to the 805 until next year