The Pentium D 805 is a budget CPU, but it puts lots of processors from AMD and Intel to shame. Although it is not based on the latest 65 nm core, this CPU remains stable even when operating at amazing 4.1 GHz. What will this mean for the status quo in the computer industry?

True, it's quite a feat. However -- the power consumption is obscene, 260 watts at idle. Your £79GBP is very misleading in the need for higher-quality peripheral components.

I'd like to see this kind of effort expended on an 820 and a 920, sure they cost more, but EIST is worth it [considering energy prices over here lately!].

Actually, the 930 is available at £140GBP at some online retailers, it'd probably pay for itself a couple of years down the line. (two-hundred and sixty watts IDLE!) A budget 65nm overclocking review would thus probably be far a more relevant article considering your tech-savvy reader-base. Personally, I'm avoiding the 805. It's tempting, sure, but with the release of the 900 series - there is no contest.

Add VAT to that £80 as well so its £93 in good old UK. Still a bargin if all of them preform that well.

who cares about price and power that thing takes all comers in quite a few benchies. i know some people like wusy will disagree about the zalman though. still price performance is incredible. remember most overclockers will buy an aftermarket cooler regardless of which cpu they get so the cost of that isn't really important.

Amazing sitting here speachless... I should throw away the Pentium D 950 and buy four Pentium D 805s! hehehhe

wait and see what conroe can do! im willing to bet that conroe will replace the 805 as the overlcock champ! and its power consumption will be withink reasonable levels :!:

oh shut up.

LOL relax a little no need to get aggressive

astonishing.... :!:

Sure the overclocking is great and price/performance is unbeatable but I would not touch this with a 10ft pole.

Think about price/performance after running this setup for a year with an average use of 8 hours per day (that is being modest).

Hell, the processor drawing 2XX watts of power all the time would make your electric bill go through the roof!

Over a years time im sure you'd spend $400-$500 more in electricity alone!

Not worth it. Great idea though.

I dont think any one who is overclocking will give a rats ass what the consumption is like or the size of the power bill. Thats not what its about.
You will prob only have this chip for 6-12 months before the next big thing is out so wo cares how much juice it drinks in the long run. Also most computers can downclock if its not being used. most peoples comps dont run full wack 8 hours a day.

This is about a chip that is £90 besting a £600 chip.

I certainly dont care how much power my computer uses.

Each to their own.

It's the same with hotting up cars, some people love to do it. Others don't get it and can't understand why people do.

Sure you shorten the life of the engine and get poor fuel economy (not always), but that's not the point of doing it.
It's all about having fun and enjoying a hobby.

that 4.1 is quite insane, I have never heard about the Pentium d before, now I bet when wind of this gets around they will fly out of stores.

Also people who are in the dilemma right now of waiting for am2 or conroe or just build a new system right now have a low cost way to get a dominating cpu right now and not spend a lot, just to have it not perform well enough for them in a few months.

And if they don’t like the power thing they don’t have to go to 4.1 the thing still kicks but at lower clock rates.

One request, could you guys at toms get a phase change cooling solution hooked up to that thing and see if it goes higher yet? Maybe oil or liquid nitrogen could work too?

great clocks i'm very suprised with taht small lilte chip going turning in to a huge monster with proper theeth and fangs very very cool but how about hte life span of that processor shure it won't last very long in that oc and the ram to it will take a beat to, but very cool just for showing off.

The article mentioned a software overclocking app from Gigabyte. Is there any reason an app like that couldn't be expanded to be a SpeedStep clone of sorts? It could ramp up FSB settings and voltages when it detects high processor usage (on either core) and turn them back down when usage drops. That way you could have the best of all worlds: 3.8 GHz speed on air when its needed, low(er) power consumption at idle, all at bargain basement prices. Has this already been done?

They couldn't if they wanted to anyway ast it staes in the report. They got it at 4.3Ghz where windows XP would boot but when they put ir under any high load it would crash

RTFA, that's with VAT Still, it's a feat, and taken on the whole I think it'll save you money over the £700 EE. But you chaps are right, there are other options to look into for budget processors that overclock. Just we can't give you every piece of info under the sun in the one article

you gave it a bloody good go with that one

My machine is time for an upgrade and I was looking for an excuse to cross over.

Just on question about this. Is it possible to run this with a SLI configuration somehow?

how exactly would it not be. as long as a motherboard supports both it would work fine.