Intel Dual Core from £79 +VAT

Fulcrum · 13 May 2006 at 23:21

51 seconds for the 1m time is ok. I was hoping for better performance from these but they are dual core so potentially any performance is doubled if used right

Iam sitting on a Socket 754 Sempron @2.5ghz (similar budget performance tuning thing) and it does it in 42 secs with a best of 38 so far.
Superpi heavily relys on the memory timings so its just a simple test.

Even my socket A could do 38 secs so none of this is blistering times, but I guess the whole deal relys on that dual core making windows multitask nicer - superpi does not test that, unless you run two seperate instances at once?

sweat69 said:
the setting was on 1m the time it did it in was 51 secs.

Sorry thought you meant 111seconds then :eek:

hehe. 51 is not fast but sounds right for stock speed of this processor, its bottom of the range after all

gam3r said:
im pondering this route as well...but 2 GB of Geil DDR2 ram instead for a gaming rig. Is this wise?

Do any games use dual core ? This processor choice only works if you can overclock it to the extremes, a nice challenge

sweat69 · 14 May 2006 at 08:06

try these games http://forumz.tomshardware.com/games/Dual-Core-supported-games-ftopict94969.html

gam3r · 14 May 2006 at 11:13

Fulcrum said:
Do any games use dual core ? This processor choice only works if you can overclock it to the extremes, a nice challenge

a lot of them don't but i guess soon a lot of them will start making patches for dual core support. Really im looking for a cheap upgrade solution which is bang for buck and allows me to look into conroe later on.

Webzta · 14 May 2006 at 11:15

Fulcrum said:
what superpi score do you get ?

Thanks for the info guys, I just spotted one for 33 all in. The downside is that no volt adjust but without a hefty HSF and PSU that is maybe for the best I guess.
Are these really ok for Conroe even with old DDR?

Old DDR? DDR still retains its lower latencies.

Pair a conroe with some decent BH-5 and you are sure to score high.

If you are going the ddr route, the motherboards wont do the HIGH Fsb the new ones do, 400+

Webzta · 14 May 2006 at 11:16

sweat69 said:
super pi 1m 51sec i was downloading bf2 demo and doom in the back ground.
never used super pi before so dont know if that was good or bad.

What spec are you running? 51 sec seems overly slow to me.

Webzta · 14 May 2006 at 11:17

gam3r said:
a lot of them don't but i guess soon a lot of them will start making patches for dual core support. Really im looking for a cheap upgrade solution which is bang for buck and allows me to look into conroe later on.

If you go for the asrock board, same applies to anyone - please make a results thread, as there is bound to be a lot of interest.

on the PI front, Conroe stock does it in 20~

sweat69 · 16 May 2006 at 19:31

Webzta said:
What spec are you running? 51 sec seems overly slow to me.

I have managed to get it down to 42 now.

Capt Doufos · 16 May 2006 at 21:21

I get 35s @ 3.8ghz

gam3r · 16 May 2006 at 21:38

Im still looking for a decent overcloking non - wallet burning motherboard...

ajgoodfellow · 17 May 2006 at 12:23

gam3r said:
Im still looking for a decent overcloking non - wallet burning motherboard...

Do you need an AGP or PCI-E board?

easyrider · 17 May 2006 at 13:12

ajgoodfellow said:
Do you need an AGP or PCI-E board?

I need a pci e mobo as i am so close to buying this chip.
But need one for around 50 with good voltage options.

Webzta · 17 May 2006 at 13:36

sweat69 said:
I have managed to get it down to 42 now.

what speed are you at for 42? My old 2.4c got 41 I believe. That was at 3.6Ghz 300fsb though.

timings were 2.5-4-4-7.

Raikiri · 17 May 2006 at 14:12

easyrider said:
I need a pci e mobo as i am so close to buying this chip.
But need one for around 50 with good voltage options.

Asus P5ND2 SLi is £65... up to 1.6 CPU voltage and in a review of the gigabyte 3D galaxy it went to 260FSB

I have the Deluxe version (£35 b grade)

gam3r · 17 May 2006 at 15:58

Raikiri said:
Asus P5ND2 SLi is £65... up to 1.6 CPU voltage and in a review of the gigabyte 3D galaxy it went to 260FSB

I have the Deluxe version (£35 b grade)

Im looking for PCI-e so i can use it with a x1800xt which i will be buying...the p5nd2 is 65quid EX vat

ajgoodfellow · 17 May 2006 at 16:21

Maybe try looking at B-Grade motherboards?

I got mine B-Grade and it saved me a fortune - it was fully working, it just didn't come with the manuals, cables or drivers

gam3r · 17 May 2006 at 16:41

there are none there atm..

sweat69 · 24 May 2006 at 20:53

Webzta said:
what speed are you at for 42? My old 2.4c got 41 I believe. That was at 3.6Ghz 300fsb though.

timings were 2.5-4-4-7.

Know idear friend put some of his expensive ddr11 ram in rebooted it and it scored 42.But since that i have brought some ddr11 ram Samsung 1GB DDR2 PC5300 667MHz x2 from the bay for £69 and put it in now it scores 44 i would take a screen shot to prove it but have know idear how to do it?

Mikey1280 · 24 May 2006 at 21:41

Press the print screen button then paste it into paint

sweat69 · 24 May 2006 at 21:56

Yeah i have dun that but how do i put it on this thread?

ajgoodfellow · 24 May 2006 at 22:00

I'd first resize it to a sensible size, like 800x600, or just save the important part of the screenshot (the Super PI time and CPU-Z window). I'd then save it as a jpg to keep the file size down

Upload it to a free image hosting site such as ImageShack (http://www.imageshack.us/) and enclose the URL of the image between