Intel Dual Core from £79 +VAT

m3csl2004 · 15 Mar 2006 at 13:21

re dan23: i recomended that board in the other thread - i did so after some research showing that board had some decent oc features (dont expect uber clocks but it seems a nice little board)

deffo on the p5p800se gibbo

dan23 · 15 Mar 2006 at 18:19

m3csl2004 said:
re dan23: i recomended that board in the other thread - i did so after some research showing that board had some decent oc features (dont expect uber clocks but it seems a nice little board)

deffo on the p5p800se gibbo

Would the P5P800SE be a better option?

Mul · 15 Mar 2006 at 18:22

I would say so. It allows you to drop the CPU multiplier as well so you could run at 800FSB without needing to hit 4.0Ghz.

Mul

m3csl2004 · 15 Mar 2006 at 20:42

yeah

however you lose pci-e

but you gain 865 lovliness

HangTime · 15 Mar 2006 at 23:51

Bit of a bummer really, a £55 board dualcore board supporing DDR1 would have been nice, but having already made the jump to PCI-E (and the lack of good AGP cards) make it a no-go.

Would probably make a nice cheap server for crunching or whatever though.

m3csl2004 · 15 Mar 2006 at 23:52

p5vd1-x

surfsquid · 16 Mar 2006 at 17:12

looking at deal of the week, are the prices going up next week?

Emlyn_Dewar · 16 Mar 2006 at 17:30

If they do it will only be by a few quid I imagine, everywhere else is selling them for similar prices.

WJA96 · 16 Mar 2006 at 20:23

Raikiri said:
Found the Gigabyte GA-8I945GMF which looks pretty good, that is £75~ froma few places (another suggestion OCuk) but there seems to be very little info about it.

That board doesn't clock at all. You cannot even adjust the FSB, let alone voltages.

Raikiri · 16 Mar 2006 at 20:32

WJA96 said:
That board doesn't clock at all. You cannot even adjust the FSB, let alone voltages.

I know that now

I found a very good review of the Abit board I mention earlier praising it's clocking abilities so if I do go for this thats the board i'll buy

surfsquid · 16 Mar 2006 at 21:37

are you 100% sure that the micro atx abit board works with these 65nm cpus? on the abit website i can only find compatability for 90nm dual cores?!?!

Mul · 16 Mar 2006 at 21:44

the Pentium D 805 is a 90nm cpu.

Mul

maddness · 16 Mar 2006 at 21:58

surfsquid said:
are you 100% sure that the micro atx abit board works with these 65nm cpus? on the abit website i can only find compatability for 90nm dual cores?!?!

The LG-80 and LG-81 deffinatly work with the 65nm Preslers, and the 90nm Smithfields.

surfsquid · 17 Mar 2006 at 07:09

Mul said:
the Pentium D 805 is a 90nm cpu.

Mul

smacks forehead, cheers guys!

Byron · 19 Mar 2006 at 22:04

Capt Doufos said:
Nah, it's an xspc 6x120mm (3 each side) rad mounted in the top of a lian-li PC75b.

Couple of sisoft screenies at 3.8ghz, 190FSB:

m8, could you do and some memory benchmarks PLEASE!!!

sisoft membandwidth
everest (read/write)

This chip looks rather promising for its price!
Cheers

Webzta · 22 Mar 2006 at 00:11

Capt Doufos said:
945. 945/955/975 all support dual core.

865 does also......

slap ed · 23 Mar 2006 at 09:09

lowrider007 said:
I agree It certainly is beating it but not nearly as much as I thought it would, its just that I think that too many people often exagerrate the difference in performance when it come to comparing Intel and AMD cpu's, instead of stating what the actual differences are they just say "AMD will whip it's butt maaan", when you have both Intel and AMD systems running side by side in the same room you can see theres really to a big difference.

i have got a pentium 4 650 3.4 ghz on one machine and an opteron 146 @ 2.6 ghz on my other machine as a direct comparison the pentium did 1mb super pi on stock 38 seconds and the opteron clocked at 2.6ghz does 32 seconds . i know the opteron was clocked so not a fair test but that aside i prefer the pentium for general work seems quicker and the opteron for games

Gun9 · 23 Mar 2006 at 10:15

ordered 1 of these to use in a download machine great price!!

jeffa123 · 23 Mar 2006 at 11:20

I have a Pressler 3GHZ running in my P5N32 Motherboard with 2 7800 GTX's. It not an itel board but supports the Dual core CPU very well and makes light of TOCA3 AND QUAKE 4. I found the 3.2ghz presscot dogged and slow in certain AI points of the games but with the Dual core the background tasks working on my system are used by the second core and the primary core is used strictly for the game. Neither game uses both cores but speeds things up through use of it as a task manager.

ajgoodfellow · 23 Mar 2006 at 11:33

jeffa123 said:
I have a Pressler 3GHZ running in my P5N32 Motherboard with 2 7800 GTX's. It not an itel board but supports the Dual core CPU very well and makes light of TOCA3 AND QUAKE 4. I found the 3.2ghz presscot dogged and slow in certain AI points of the games but with the Dual core the background tasks working on my system are used by the second core and the primary core is used strictly for the game. Neither game uses both cores but speeds things up through use of it as a task manager.

Get the dual core patch for Quake 4 - it shows some noticeable improvements