A 4.1 GHz Dual Core at £79.95-But what about Celeron D 311?

[alangeering]

Reading the article: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/2006/05/10/dual_41_ghz_cores_uk/

Ideal Conditions For Overclocking

From a collection of technical characteristics we can derive four key elements that a CPU must possess to demonstrate strong overclocking potential:

(1)* Low front side bus stock clock speed, which creates the possibility for overclocking
(2)* A high multiplier value, which enables the processor to attain high clock rates
(3)* An improved circuit version (stepping)
(4)* A low price, to make the cost difference with a top-of-the-line CPU sufficiently large to justify the effort required in overclocking.

Now for a table comparing the Celeron D 311 and Pentum D 805

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Celeron D 311 Pentium D 805
(1) FSB @ Stock 533 MHz 533 MHz
(2) Multiplier 20x 20x
(3) Circuit Version ??? B0
(4) Price £36.26 £78.99
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Do you think the Celeron will exhibit similar performance gains? How will it compare agains the various other processors mentioned in the recent overclocking article?

Comments please.

 

[1Tanker]

The celeron will probably overclock very well also, but it still only has 256k

cache. The celeron is still only a single core CPU also, and thus multitasking

will suck compared to the 805D. Sometimes, especially in the past, celerons

can/could be overclocked to perform on par with pentiums and the price

difference could help justify that route, but when compared to a dual-core

it's not even worth considering...the price difference isn't that huge.

 

[n00000bie]

Newbie question: Must you have DDR2 RAM to perform this OC?

 

[cmptrdude79]

Newbie question: Must you have DDR2 RAM to perform this OC?

In a word, yes. All current Intel products operate on Socket 775, which AFAIK requires DDR2. That would include both the Celeron D 311 and the Pentium D 805.

-J

 

[Crashman]

Socket 775 doesn't require DDR2, in fact there are several DDR1 boards available using 915 and ATI Radeon Xpress chipsets, as well as forward-engineered 865 chipset boards.

 

[Tacoboy]

The last revision of the Intel chip set 865 might also support the D805 CPU.
Still doing some reading on it.

 

[axscpu]

I miself have a celeron d 331 overclocked from the stock 533 to 667 and it`s a very stable proc, the good thing is that it can run winxp64, which is what i´ll try this weekend...... maybe in a 975x i could get to the mithical 4ghz

 

[ihateconflict]

Mythical 4ghz? 😀

I just Bought a Celeron D331 £35, An Asrock 775i65GV mobo £34 , and 256mb pc4000 £13.

The mobo has onboard graphics and no vcore tweaking yet this little sucker is running @ 4.1ghz!!! (stock heatsink too and no throttling). My Linux box now rocks! I'll add another 512 of the same ram tomos.

p.s. Kingmax Hardcore Pc4000 £13 Top stuff!