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...

 

[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.