IV. Overclocking and Closing Thoughts

Overclocking the Gallatin proved less fruitful than overclocking the Conroe. The Gallatin, with 200MHz (800MHz QPB) FSB only manage to stay stable at 225MHz FSB or abouit 3.8GHz. And even at this clock speed, it still can not touch Conroe on stock speed. Overclocking Conroe proved very easy, running at 266MHz (1066Mhz QPB) at default, 400Mhz FSB is breached easily. However, the RAM already gave up since my DDR2-533MHz can only do DDR2-800MHz at 2.3v. While it can go higher, pumping more vDIMM isn't something I'd like to do anymore.

In closing, the current lowest speed grade processor available today is miles, leaps, and bounds ahead of techonology. And end-users doesn't have to shell out a fortune to experience superb performance. If you are holding out a full upgrade this past two years, there isn't any better time than now to migrate to the new Intel solutions.