Intel Pentium D 805 Smithfield Dual Core Processor Review

**Capper** · April 17th, 2006

Quote:

We all have a friend or relative who is still chugging along on an old hand me down computer....you know the one, that PIII or early P4 you probably gave them 2-3 yrs ago. While those old beaters are fine for simple word processing, browsing the web, and checking email, they are undoubtedly reaching the end of the line. How do you bring the non-enthusiast into the present without spending a lot of money?

Intel Pentium D 805 Smithfield Dual Core Processor Review
http://hardwarelogic.com/news/128/AR...006-04-17.html

**simple_inhibition** · April 17th, 2006

sweet! ive been waiting for this review! :D im looking to build some cheap dual core folders in the future ;)

Tyreal · April 17th, 2006

Read this review the minute i saw it on the site. Pretty good and it looks to be a nice overclocker to boot!

**Capper** · April 17th, 2006

Don't confuse this with something like a Celeron...this is a pretty damn impressive CPU, especially considering the price to performance ratio

**simple_inhibition** · April 17th, 2006

heck yeah. that things beastly i mean adding another 1000mhz with stock voltage is impressive. paired with a good cooling solution that 533mhz bus restriction is a nil issue.

**Capper** · April 17th, 2006

The only place you'll really feel the 533FSB bottleneck is with memory benchmarks.....outside of that the performance was on par with other processors at similar clock speeds.

RangerXLT8 · April 17th, 2006

Impressive. Been hearing good things about the 805. You would think the 920 having 4mb cache would beat it in every way, but not so. Only thing is the 533mhz FSB. FSB means alot to overall system performance. For 140 bucks man, it can't be beat!

**Capper** · April 17th, 2006

I think too much is made of a processors L2 cache......in my humble opinion, it all comes down to the simplest thing...overall clock speed.

Tyreal · April 17th, 2006

Clock speed? What about architecture? We all know that it makes a massive difference.

**Capper** · April 17th, 2006

uh.....think about Ty, and get back to me.........
common sense says that two similar processors (comparing AMD to Intel is like comparing apples to oranges) are going to show about the same performance....regardless of the cache size.....its reallyy a marketing gimmick.

April 17th, 2006	#2
simple_inhibition socket 939 junkie Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In front of my pc in Ft Bragg XD Posts: 1,433 Blog Entries: 1	sweet! ive been waiting for this review! :D im looking to build some cheap dual core folders in the future ;) E8400 @ 4ghz (500x8 @ 1.35v) Gigabyte X38-DQ6 2x2GB G-Skill DDR2 1000 @ DDR2 1000 5-5-5-15 2.1v 2 Sapphire ATi Radeon HD3870 in Crossfire Seagate 7200.11 500GB 32MB Cache HDD Audigy 2 ZS Gamer Silverstone DA750 Samsung Dual Layer DVD Burner Lian Li G70WB Thermochill PA120.3\|Swiftech Storm Rev.2\|Swiftech MCP 655

April 17th, 2006	#3
Tyreal Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: British Columbia, Canada Posts: 2,557	Read this review the minute i saw it on the site. Pretty good and it looks to be a nice overclocker to boot! I Like Watercooling. D-Tek Fuzion, MCP655, MCR220

April 17th, 2006	#4
Capper The Final Word Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Las Vegas, NV Posts: 5,546 Blog Entries: 6	Don't confuse this with something like a Celeron...this is a pretty damn impressive CPU, especially considering the price to performance ratio INTEL QX9650 ASUS P5E3 Premium 4GB DDR3-1600 Sapphire HD 3870X2 Danger Den Tower-26 (Custom W/C) 5 x Seagate 250GB HDD in RAID5 BFG ES 800W PSU

April 17th, 2006	#5
simple_inhibition socket 939 junkie Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In front of my pc in Ft Bragg XD Posts: 1,433 Blog Entries: 1	heck yeah. that things beastly i mean adding another 1000mhz with stock voltage is impressive. paired with a good cooling solution that 533mhz bus restriction is a nil issue. E8400 @ 4ghz (500x8 @ 1.35v) Gigabyte X38-DQ6 2x2GB G-Skill DDR2 1000 @ DDR2 1000 5-5-5-15 2.1v 2 Sapphire ATi Radeon HD3870 in Crossfire Seagate 7200.11 500GB 32MB Cache HDD Audigy 2 ZS Gamer Silverstone DA750 Samsung Dual Layer DVD Burner Lian Li G70WB Thermochill PA120.3\|Swiftech Storm Rev.2\|Swiftech MCP 655

April 17th, 2006	#6
Capper The Final Word Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Las Vegas, NV Posts: 5,546 Blog Entries: 6	The only place you'll really feel the 533FSB bottleneck is with memory benchmarks.....outside of that the performance was on par with other processors at similar clock speeds. INTEL QX9650 ASUS P5E3 Premium 4GB DDR3-1600 Sapphire HD 3870X2 Danger Den Tower-26 (Custom W/C) 5 x Seagate 250GB HDD in RAID5 BFG ES 800W PSU

April 17th, 2006	#7
RangerXLT8 Worker Ant Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: New Jersey Posts: 936	Impressive. Been hearing good things about the 805. You would think the 920 having 4mb cache would beat it in every way, but not so. Only thing is the 533mhz FSB. FSB means alot to overall system performance. For 140 bucks man, it can't be beat! Quad Core Xeon 3210@3.22ghz GA-EP35C-DS3R 460FSB x 7 -- 60mm Delta fan on NB 2x1gb OCZ3-1333@1380MHZ Sapphire 4870 512mb GDDR5 2x Raptor 150 ADFD RAID 0--WD320YS RE 16mb Storage Samsung Super WriteMaster 20x DVDRW X-Fi eXtremeGamer w\Logitech Z-2300 Silverstone OP650 54A 12v Rail Torture Rack--MC-TDX--Black Ice GTX240--MCP355 Rev 2--Swiftech MicroRes-- Tygon 3603 3/8"ID Logitech G5 - Logitech LX-710 wireless KB Vista Ultimate 64

Similar Threads
Thread	Thread Starter	Forum	Replies	Last Post
Intel Pentium D-925 vs Intel Dual Core E2180	tya-1	Processors	11	February 20th, 2008 11:22
INTEL E6850 Dual Core Processor Review	Capper	Processors	15	September 22nd, 2007 07:04
Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 Processor Review	Capper	Processors	15	February 19th, 2007 12:19
Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 Dual Core Processor Review	Capper	Processors	0	November 10th, 2006 01:46
Intel Pentium D 920 Presler LGA 775 Dual Core Processor	Capper	Processors	31	August 20th, 2006 06:23