An $89 Pentium Dual Core that Runs at 3.2 GHz

[Zorg]

^^ He was being sarcastic or illogical, one of the two 😉

I though it was 2 years 6 months and 4 days.

 

[epsilon84]

how many years of life do u lose with o'cing

Quite a few. Studies have shown that overclockers have substantially lower life expectancy. :lol:

Is overclocking really worth dieing young? 😗

 

[randomizer]

I though it was 2 years 6 months and 4 days.

And 17 minutes. Of course, if you only have the PC on 8 hours a day it will last 4 years, 7 months, 18 days and 31 minutes.

 

[Zorg]

And 17 minutes. Of course, if you only have the PC on 8 hours a day it will last 4 years, 7 months, 18 days and 31 minutes.

I forgot about the minutes, thanks for reminding me.

 

[randomizer]

No problem. I am currently conducting some experiments which employ the short wavelength of neutrons to examine a CPU on the nano scale for when and where defects occur due to excessive overclocking over long periods. I should be able to calculate it to within 4 nanoseconds of the actual hardware failure with current technology. When the neutron scatter equipment at ANSTO is finished, I should be able to get it to within 0.2 nanoseconds (that is, 200 picoseconds). Not quite good enough for my tastes, but that is all that is available to me at the moment 🙁

 

[Zorg]

Please inform us of your findings.

 

[randomizer]

My findings will be published in my PhD thesis. I'm also doing a pop-up book for those less technically minded.

 

[Zorg]

I better go for the pop-up book.

Edit: Does it have pretty pictures?

 

[randomizer]

It does. Theres even a picture of a Nehalem chip that when you turn the page, makes an electronic voice that says "I'm 32 nanometer, buy me!"

Batteries not included.

 

[Zorg]

Cool!

 

[randomizer]

😀

 

[JuiceJones]

Hey, I was only off 5 months, 26 days, and 23:43. Not too shabby I'd say. But to abate these little errors I'll be keeping my eye on Amazon awaiting that book. 😀

 

[nxcmp]

Back when the FIRST article from toms came out with this info I had 3 computer with D 805s 2 of which were OC'd to 3.6 with air and the third I could get to 4.0 with water cooling. + nice custom heaters for the winter as well

 

[imrul]

lol

 

[SKullman]

Ok, I've been out of the OC game for a while, this article inspired me to try again.

I went with a Gigabyte G33M-S2H board because of the HDMI port.

In the MIT section of the BIOS I can change my FSB, but the Memory clock seems to be locked to it. I can go as hight as 266 and this automagically adjusts the memory to 1064, which locks my system, I manually set the memory multiplier to 3.33 (I can choose auto, 3.33, and 4) which ~ 888 for the memory. This gives me 2.4 on the CPU (which runs nice)

Is this a limitation of my board, or am I missing something.

Thanks.

 

[randomizer]

Don't forget to press ctrl-F1 to access the advanced options.

EDIT: Oops, that's only for timings, nvm. Make sure the PCI express frequency is set to 100MHz. For the System Memory Multiplier you should be able to go as low as 2.00 (1:1 FSB : DRAM)

 

[pete4r]

Sorry, but even the X2-6000+ can't touch this chip when both are fully OC'd.
Check the reviews at X-Bit LABs for lots of good articles.

They did not compare the chips directly, but the X6000+ was over 10% behind the E6850 in most benches.
Even if an OC to 3.3Ghz (10%) yielded a 10% boost (Unlikely) it still would have lost.
Also OC's to 3.3Ghz are tough since AMD has already boosted the TDP on that chip from 89w to 125w so they could get the 5600+ chip running at 6000+ speeds.

The E2160 clearly beat the E6850 when the E2160 was OC'd to 3.2Ghz.
Perhaps the hand-picked X2-6400s would come close but still would lose on clock.
Maybe, just maybe you could OC to match performance.

You can still get a cheaper AMD System, but even the fastest X2 can't really touch any of the C2Ds.
If they were better, AMD would sell them for more like they used to.
However, they are selling at bargain bin prices because that is they need to do when the chips are compared.

It's just not the folks you consider "FanBoys" making these claims.
It's AMD with their pricing.

sorry i dont know what planet you are on maybe from the planet "i cant read the graphical chart"

the review article showing the Pentium Dual-Core above the X2 6000+ by a very small margin, and the X2-6000 has a green background colour which indicates the chip is NOT overclocked.

Also i failed to find 1 single gaming benchmark showing the o/c E2140 is above the E6850 like you mentioned even at 3.5GHz.

Only slight advantage on applications due to the 400-500MHz over the E6850

if you dont call yourself a "fanboy" then i dont know what fanboy is!

 

[Evilonigiri]

sorry i dont know what planet you are on maybe from the planet "i cant read the graphical chart"

the review article showing the Pentium Dual-Core above the X2 6000+ by a very small margin, and the X2-6000 has a green background colour which indicates the chip is NOT overclocked.

Also i failed to find 1 single gaming benchmark showing the o/c E2140 is above the E6850 like you mentioned even at 3.5GHz.

Only slight advantage on applications due to the 400-500MHz over the E6850

if you dont call yourself a "fanboy" then i dont know what fanboy is!

http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/view.php?id=2332&cid=2&pg=5

A huge smack to the face! And the E2160 is only at 3.33Ghz!

If anything, you're a fanboy. Zen's a factboy.

 

[coret]

Also i failed to find 1 single gaming benchmark showing the o/c E2140 is above the E6850 like you mentioned even at 3.5GHz.

Dude ... look at the THG article on the E2140 overclocking and you'll see many game benchies showing the advantage of 3.5GHz e2140 over e6850 (stock) and q6600 (stock).

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Intel-Pentium-Dual-Core-E2140-overclocking,review-29816-16.html

 

[Fireaxe888]

Hi all,I recently got a new computer with a pentium dual-core at 2.0 ghz with vista ultimate.When I try to overclock it,even at 2.10 ghz,it fails shuts down,and restarts with the default settings.(Actually at 2.10 it froze at the vista loading screen)Any help here guys?

 

[KyleSTL]

We would need to know the specs of your entire system. Please start a new thread in the overclocking section.

 

[Shadow703793]

^Agreed post new thread.

 

[gigman]

Some of us need to buy AMD becuase if amd goes down than there will be no competition and intel can raise their prices as high as they want

 

[yipsl]

Just about the only thing that didn't make sense in their $500 build was the $100 power supply. It was a pretty good article and says what it is supposed to.

The PSU is one thing you cannot skimp on. I always buy decent $99 PSU's, even if I get one at a sale price at Fry's for around $59 to $79. Budget or not, a bad PSU can ruin a good system.

 

[NeurAxaL]

i use one of these, and i think some ppl who are buying lower end i3s for the same money that the pentium costs is ridiculous. also i just researched, only 3/8 can do better, and the best is still around $150[$70 dollars more!]. people think just because tech is newer it is better. sometimes this is true but not always.

[ i also found out that the most expensive is the Intel® Core™ i3-4110E Processor (3M Cache, 2.60 GHz) at $225
WTF???