As an enthusiast you always want out more from your CPU. It really doesn’t matter how fast the CPU really is when you’ve crammed it down the socket. As long as there is power to gain through overclocking, there will be people doing it. The worst part with today’s processors is that the heat increases exponentially in relevance to the increase you make, but the performance can well follow its brother, the heat. Today we’ve also got two cores, instead of one, which results in even more factors to count in to the total sum, but for those who doesn’t feel like throwing up money and trying, with the risk of getting disappointed, may check out what Legion Hardware now has published.
Pentium D 820 vs. Athlon 64 X2 4400+ is the name of the recent article published. An article where the processors got overclocked as much as possible. The 4400+ got squeezed up to a frequency of 2.7GHz, compared to the stock 2.2GHz, whilst the D 820 got pushed up to a quite astonishing 4.2GHz, to compare with the stock 2.8GHz, a 50% increase.
This is probably the reason why it pretty much crushes the 4400+ in the memory-tests. The synthetic tests seemed to be giving pretty strange results, the 4400+ was more than 100% “faster” in each and every one of the tests ran with SiSoft Sandra. And towards the end of it all, there’s the scene seen so many times before; in the game-tests AMD takes home the win in every game tested, although not with much, which probably can be explained by the higher clock frequencies on the D 820.
Worth mentioning might be that the Pentium D 820 is way cheaper than the Athlon 64 X2 4400+.
