At Tom's Hardware, they report on overclocking the $130, bottom-rung dual-core Pentium D 805 by about 50%, from 2.66 GHz to 4.1 GHz. They get it up to about 4.0 GHz on air-cooling! It performs similarly to the top end AMD and Intel CPUs.
I've never built nor OC'd a PC, but I'm tempted by this. Even with the need for an expensive motherboard and memory, this may still provide high-end performance at a mid-range budget.
Thoughts? You going to try this?
I suggest reading the first page:
http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/05/..._41_ghz_cores/
and the penultimate page for the summary:
http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/05/...es/page44.html
I've never built nor OC'd a PC, but I'm tempted by this. Even with the need for an expensive motherboard and memory, this may still provide high-end performance at a mid-range budget.
Thoughts? You going to try this?
I suggest reading the first page:
http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/05/..._41_ghz_cores/
and the penultimate page for the summary:
http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/05/...es/page44.html