Dual core for under £100!

[onlinebacon]

Hey everyone,

To all those people in the UK now, there is a sub £100 dual core processor!

The Pentium D 2.66ghz 2x1mb Cache processor:P

I have seen people overclock each core to 4ghz, now THAT is value for money

Savastore, overclockers and a few other places have it

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[yourname3232]

The only problem about overclocking to 4ghz is that you pay a premium for all of the other parts (ram, mobo, etc) even though the processor is cheap.

[a12ctic]

dont let it fool you, it does overclock to 4.1ghz ON WATER COOLING, on stock cooling it will only go to 3.1ghz, if you want a great deal look at the1.8ghz amd 64, itll do 2.7ghz on stock cooling (yes thats faster than the fx57) without a voltage bump and only a 1C change in temp.

[onlinebacon]

Ah, fair enough, though the reason i thought the pentium d would be cool was cos it was dual core, but would it make that much difference when gaming?

[a12ctic]

dual cores atm arent really taken advantage of by games, and i dont think they ever will (Especialy if PPU's really take off). If your into gaming performance the amd 3000+(1.8ghz)/3200+(2.0ghz) vience cores are your best bet, theyre beasts, the lowest overclock anybody is getting with them is 2.5ghz and for 100$ you really cant go wrong heh

[onlinebacon]

fair enough, I might go for that then

Either that or the 3400, not sure yet, tho the 3400 is a little more pricey

[a12ctic]

if ur an overclocker id just go with the 3200 or 3000, the 3400/3500 dont OC much further than the 3000/3200

[razali2k5]

Honestly even with good cooling overclocking can cut the life of a processor in half, plus in order to keep up with ur processor, you either need fast components or overclock those also which isnt good... Personally i found that overclocking didnt do much for me and saving a couple of seconds isnt that important to me

Anyway, the pentium 9xx series are awesome though, i really want to get one when theyre cheaper

I dont think i have seen the pentium d 2.66 Ghz here in Ohio