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Is Pentium 805 good for games

Paul_Robson

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Im upgrading a pc for a very good friend and i want to try save them some money.Can you please tell me if the Intel Pentium 4 805 Dual Core "LGA775 Smithfield" 2.66GHz is any good for games.I know it will overclock well. Is it as good as people say, and will it play todays games smoothly(as long as i have a cheap/nice graphic card,like an BFG 6600GT) .Also, what motherboard do you suggest that i get with that chip.Oh, and memory,lol. Thankyou.
 
I will be getting a conroe for myself :) They dont play games often though, mainly just read the net, collect emails and do a little bit of printing(arty stuff). They dont want to spend much also, so i was thinking this chip was a cheap alternative.People seem to rate it. What do you think ?
 
They are excellent for general use and they seem perfectly capable gaming, not as fast as the AMD equivilent but still pretty good. Might want to see what happens about the X2 3600+.
 
Why what is going on with the x2 3600+. I may even just get an asus board and chuck in an opti 146.My 146 opteron is running at 2.8 GHz at stock volts, and its sooo fast. Edited for the rules !!!!!!!!!!
 
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Dude I would take that company out of that post because its in the rules not to advertise other companys

Stelly
 
Stelly said:
Dude I would take that company out of that post because its in the rules not to advertise other companys

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ebay is not a company nor is it competition to ocuk, lots of people have mentioned ebay here before and its fine.
 
I edited my post. All i was saying was that i prefer my opti 146 and that im selling my 165. I was not advertising it on here, nor was i offering it to anyone on here. I am moving to conroe soon, So i will sell my opti 165, and build a pc for someone , and they will get my asus a8n32sli with the opti 146 in it. its clocked at 2800mhz, and its running cool.I didnt mean to break the rules or offend anyone.Besides, loads of people have mentioned ebay on here, and even mentioned in posts about hardware that they want to get rid of. But thanks for pointing out the rules to me. I dont want to offend to upset anyone on here, as your all so nice and helpful :)
 
I dont think i will be overclocking it that much though, i thought id clock the 805 to about 3.2 ghz. i think im best putting an opti 146 in the pc that im going to build on the cheap for this person and clock it to 2.8 ghz. Thx guys.
 
The cpu isnt usually that critical to games anyway so your choice is not really that important. 805 will do the job as well as everything else mentioned imo. If your getting 805, get decent memory so the two cores are nice and nippy

I was looking at the bottom priced conroe, how much more powerfull then the 805 is that. Is it equalivant to a 5ghz 805 ?
 
'Reasonable' ? I beg to differ...

The benchmarks tell one story I suppose - but my opinion on the 805 is simple - Clock it to 3.6Ghz and you'll be able to play any game that relies on the CPU heavily EASILY.

In FEAR I have all CPU details maxed out completely. Any MMORPG game I've ran was playable at full settings.

I heartily recommend this processor for gaming IF its overclocked to a minimum of 3.4Ghz.

Otherwise you might as well get a single core Athlon64.
 
Lets get this CPU speed in games into perspective eh? (I thought the folks you were building this for didn't do games anyway? But, that's by the by...)

Take Far Cry at 1280 x 1024. According to Toms Hardware a Pentium D820 and an X2 4200 achieve the following (They don't specify the D805, so I'm using the 820 to represent a mildly overclocked 805):-

Pentium D820 = 132.5 Frames Per Second

AMD X2 4200 = 179.4 Frames Per Second

So, a difference of 46.9 Frames Per Second. Great.

What does that mean though? Not a lot I'd say, seeing as anything over the range of 35 to 80FPS is almost irrelevant to most human eyes, and your average TFT can only manage to display 75FPS, you can see why I think we worry too much! (Enabling Vsync can change things, but that's another can of worms!)

The conclusion I'd draw is both are fine for games, so don't worry about it. Your graphics card is more important.

The Athlon 64 FX57 scores 213 or so in the same test by the way, 33.6 more FPS than the X2 4200, but nobody goes on about how rubbish an Athlon 64 FX57 is in comparison! ;)
 
Well as normal im on a tight budjet.I know i 6600Gt with run everything quite nicely. They dont play games that much but, dont like the odd game of painkiller or quake 3.Mainly the pc will be used for just surfing the net and collect emails. But you know what some people are like, one minute they just want a net access pc, next they are playing Fear or making granny look 95 instead of 142 with photoshop.I am too used to amd chips that my trouble. I, myself am going to get the conroe 6600 when it comes out.I just was thinking of the 805 as it was only about £80, which is a bargain for a dual core :)
 
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