In April 2005, Intel's biggest rival, AMD, had x86 dual-core microprocessors intended for workstations and servers on the market, and was poised to launch a comparable product intended for desktop computers. As a response, Intel developed Smithfield, the first x86 dual-core microprocessor intended for desktop computers, beating AMD's Athlon 64 X2 by a few weeks. Intel first launched Smithfield on April 16, 2005 in the form of the 3.2 GHz Hyper-threading enabled Pentium Extreme Edition 840. On May 26, 2005, Intel launched the mainstream Pentium D branded processor lineup with initial clock speeds of 2.8, 3.0, and 3.2 GHz with model numbers of 820, 830, and 840 respectively. In March 2006, Intel launched the last Smithfield processor, the entry-level Pentium D 805, clocked at 2.66 GHz with a 533 MT/s bus. The relatively cheap 805 was found to be highly overclockable; 3.5 GHz was often possible with good air cooling. Running it at over 4 GHz was possible with water cooling, and at this speed the 805 outperformed the top-of-the-line processors (May 2006) from both major CPU manufacturers (the AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 and Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 965) in many benchmarks including power consumption.
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26-May-2005 |
Popular Game System Requirements | ||
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Game | Min. | Rec. |
Red Dead Redemption 2 | 1043% | 1830% |
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 921% | 1330% |
Cyberpunk 2077 | 1330% | 1539% |
Star Wars: Jedi - Fallen Order | 775% | 2031% |
Halo: Reach | 602% | 697% |
Borderlands 3 | 1434% | 1830% |
FIFA 20 | 699% | 1281% |
eFootball PES 2020 | 884% | 1487% |
Fortnite: Chapter 2 | 627% | 961% |
Detroit: Become Human | 1168% | 1550% |
is there ANYWAY to overclock this to 3.0ghz?
There is actually, I did it. Just FSB though… If you can't do it in BIOS then download CPUCool, that does the job too!
I played yesterday on my friends pc call of duty black ops all full settings without aa with this proccesor and an nvidia 9500 gt.I got very good performance around 25 fps!
Hm, that may be the case but games are not a good way to benchmark processor based performance.
Idk why this procesor have rate 2, this procesor is better than core 2 duo e4500
IDK. Pls GD Fix this
I think this procesor rocks and rating is low !
This was a good one (before my E8400)! I was able to play Dirt 2 on medium with this processor, a Nvidia 9500GT and 3GB of DDR2 667 RAM :)
Its not that bad…
This procesor is for old games !!! Procesor is bad .