Last night I had a little play about with another uber budget system I’m test building. It consisted of a cheap Intel board, 4gb of ram, my old 8800GTS 512 and one of those new 45nm Celeron E3200 Wolfdale dual cores.
Already being aware that these new Celerons are R0 stepping I had a gut feeling it would be a bit of a clocker.
And yup it didn’t let down, very little effort was needed to get it to 4GHz!! I literally just tried 3.6GHz (300FSB) and then straight in at 4GHz (333FSB).
No additional vcore was needed, I left it on default to see what it could manage and it just kept clocking all the way up to 4GHz! though a fraction above that frequency and Prime sfft started to produce errors.
I’m sure it will scale very well with voltage like most c2d do, but as its only being cooled by that wafer thin Intel stock cooler you get in the retail box I will lay off from adding extra voltage for now, although temps are pretty good
With better cooling and a good boost of vcore I bet it could achieve considerably more and thanks to its high multi the cheapy test motherboard I’m using seems to be able to get the most out of it!!
Im sure as it clocks so well at stock voltage it would be an undervolters dream, dirt cheap HTPC cool running dual core maybe??
The processor feels remarkably powerful and windows is extremely responsive, games play very well with no noticeable difference when I was running the old 8800GTS on my quad core system.
It’s a real little power house of a processor and seems rather un Celeron like LOL
All in all not bad for 30 quid cpu with cooler!!
I’m Really digging these dirt cheap c2d Intels offerings lately! I was recently playing around with a cheap E5200 R0 that could do 4.2GHz and now these new extremely capable Celerons appear!!
I will affix the Provided Celeron badge with pride when the rig is finally built!
Already being aware that these new Celerons are R0 stepping I had a gut feeling it would be a bit of a clocker.
And yup it didn’t let down, very little effort was needed to get it to 4GHz!! I literally just tried 3.6GHz (300FSB) and then straight in at 4GHz (333FSB).
No additional vcore was needed, I left it on default to see what it could manage and it just kept clocking all the way up to 4GHz! though a fraction above that frequency and Prime sfft started to produce errors.
I’m sure it will scale very well with voltage like most c2d do, but as its only being cooled by that wafer thin Intel stock cooler you get in the retail box I will lay off from adding extra voltage for now, although temps are pretty good
With better cooling and a good boost of vcore I bet it could achieve considerably more and thanks to its high multi the cheapy test motherboard I’m using seems to be able to get the most out of it!!
Im sure as it clocks so well at stock voltage it would be an undervolters dream, dirt cheap HTPC cool running dual core maybe??
The processor feels remarkably powerful and windows is extremely responsive, games play very well with no noticeable difference when I was running the old 8800GTS on my quad core system.
It’s a real little power house of a processor and seems rather un Celeron like LOL
All in all not bad for 30 quid cpu with cooler!!
I’m Really digging these dirt cheap c2d Intels offerings lately! I was recently playing around with a cheap E5200 R0 that could do 4.2GHz and now these new extremely capable Celerons appear!!
I will affix the Provided Celeron badge with pride when the rig is finally built!
