[Pc_Support] The $130 Intel Pentium D 805 (dual-core) at 4.1GHz!!! -- Fwd: overclocking

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 08:59 -0400, William Warren wrote:
> I noticed the overvolt..you can still put it @ 3.6 ghz w/o overvolting. 
>   At 4.1 ghz the x2 3800 doesn't approach it in performance.

First off, I mentioned the Athlon x2 3800+ because I was largely
comparing sub-4GHz performance.  At 3.3-3.6GHz, it's nothing special.

Secondly, the Athlon x2 4200+/4400+ are less than $100 more than the
3800+, and _do_ compete quite well in _many_ "real world" benchmarks.
I'm personally going to go 4200+ or 4400+ in my purchase in 1-2 months.

Lastly, I've fried Intel CPUs in 6-12 months with overclocking.  In
_both_ cases they _permanently_ damaged the mainboard too.  Not worth it
IMHO.  This isn't the old Celeron PPGA.


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