Anyone using a Celeron D 356?

[Papa Lazarou]

I've heard these (65nm Cedar Mill based Celeron D's) can be overclocked to near 5ghz on stock retail cooling without too much fuss with small voltage increases. Anyone here running one? Just interested in how they perform, particularly in video related tasks. They've also got 512kb cache instead of 256kb on the old ones which can only help. A 5ghz capable chip for under £50 sounds tempting...

 

[wizardmaxx]

I am running a Celeron 326 2.53ghz at 3.70ghz stable. So theoretically the 356 should overclock to at least 4.88ghz with the right motherboard. With decent cooling 5ghz should be possible. As far as video encoding goes, celerons have never been great, but if you have a little extra time its a non-issue. I opted for the 326 to play around with until the conroes drop in price. Happy with the 326 so far.

 

[umala]

I am running a Celeron 326 2.53ghz at 3.70ghz stable. So theoretically the 356 should overclock to at least 4.88ghz with the right motherboard. With decent cooling 5ghz should be possible. As far as video encoding goes, celerons have never been great, but if you have a little extra time its a non-issue. I opted for the 326 to play around with until the conroes drop in price. Happy with the 326 so far.

Hei. I also had an 326 but never tried to OC. What is your system config.

 

[easyrider]

Although the high clock speeds sound good inreality they offer poor perfromance in encoding.

The limited cache really harms perfromance.

However a conroe running at 3.6ghz will blow you away in the encoding stakes.

Even a 6300 running 3.4ghz (which nearly all will do) will offer draw dropping encoding speeds

 

[wizardmaxx]

Sonata II
Gigabyte DS4 F3 bios
Celeron D 326 2.53 @ 3.70 Maxed out at 4.07
Thermaltake Sonic Tower with Duct Mod
Geil 1GB 800Mhz Ultra Low Latency DDR2
x1900GT @ 620/1280 Not maxed yet
34GB WD Rapter 16MB

Still cant figure out picture story. It says Enter text to be formatted [IMG.....etc

The Celeron is to play around with until Conroes drop in price. So far they have dropped from 118 to 99 excl vat.

 

[easyrider]

The Celeron is to play around with until Conroes drop in price. So far they have dropped from 118 to 99 excl vat.

Come on!

They are already a steal at that price!

 

[wizardmaxx]

Tell that to my three year old. I'm actually waiting for either the kensfield to be released to see if i can afford it or for amd to release their own 'conroe' to force prices down even more. Enjoying playing around with the celly in the mean time though.

 

[wizardmaxx]

Oh yes i've figured out the picture story now.

 

[Papa Lazarou]

Thanks for the info all. Guess no-ones using one of the 65nm processors then?

I found this article which got me thinking... http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=getarticle&articID=437 Of course the Pentium 805 also review there gives good bang for the buck but its a very hot running chip. I also found this which looks promising - http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=102033

As for Core 2 Duo, I have one I was thinking more about my secondary system which is currently an Athlon XP @ 2.2 Ghz used as a media centre. While a Core 2 processor is cheap for the power it offers, its not a cheap platform yet (decent motherboards expensive, needs DDR2, PCI-E etc).

You can pick up an Asus i865G based board which supports 800mhz FSB for £30-ish and can re-use old DDR 400 memory. Of course its not worth it if it'll still be outperformed by an Athlon XP at less than half the clock speed.

If you're waiting for a cheap Conroe the E4200 is supposed to be released in a few months. It will have an 800mhz FSB, 8x multiplier, 2mb cache and some features like Virtualisation (whatever that is) removed.