Article: Overclocking the Intel® Pentium® D 805 Processor (Dual Core for the Masses)
Many thanks to Intel® for providing the processor.
IV. Stock Benchmarking
Stock Settings
For benchmarking, I will first run the system on stock settings. The stock settings will serve
as the baseline for comparison for the overclock score. This will ensure whether overclocking
the CPU will give a performance boost or whether the CPU is just being tortured to death
without any noticeable benefit.
Note that all settings here are on automatic, except for the RAM which is set to run at 2:3 ratio, i.e. DDR2-400MHz with 133MHz on the FSB. This will ensure that during overclocking, the RAM will still be in sync for a better comparison. This is needed since the motherboard will automatically use a 1:2 ratio for the RAM and processor, making the RAM run at DDR2-533MHz at just the stock setting of 133MHz FSB.
For the stock settings, all benchmark results will be acquired from three(3) runs, removing the highest and lowest score, but not averaging the total score of the three. This limit the number of random peaks of scores, and hopes to reduce the number of random unusual results. There will be no online submission of score because of time constraint and software limitation.
Temperature at idle hovers at 44C, while shoots to as high as 54c. This is relatively cold as this processor is designed to run to as high as 64.1c. This ensures that the stock cooler is more than enough for the job.
::Subsystem Test::PCMark02
PCMark04
PCMark05
Sandra-CPU
Sandra-Multimedia
Sandra-RAM Bandwidth
::3D Test::
3DMark01SE
3DMark03
3DMark05
The stock results amazing, and I would dare say that exceed my expected performance of the processor. PCMark02 isn't impacted much by multi-processor but shows great memory performance, while CPU and Hard Disk is just about average. But PCMark04 and PCMark05 tells a very different story, a bit on the high marks, beating even some high frequency 500 and 600 series processors on stock settings alone. Gaming scores on 3DMark01 to 3DMark05 all shows consistent better than average scores and while 3DMark01 still reflects a huge portion of CPU muscle on the result, the other incarnation of 3DMark such as the 3DMark03 and 3DMark05 all relies heavily on the GPU, as such, the results should be used as a reference point only. About time to overclock this baby.
