The Serpent Rider wrote on 2025-11-18, 05:00:

With a proper revision of Wolfdale, 4.5 GHz has reasonably high chance of success.

I agree with this. The combination of E8x00 and ASUS motherboards runs at BCLK 470MHz (4.46GHz for E8500) in most cases.

agent_x007 wrote on 2025-05-05, 13:52:

Even with multiplier adjustment, you still will see 4.8GHz at 1600MT/s FSB 😉

It's probably best not to try this (unless you want to destroy your board).
My Pentium 4 631 (D0) and Celeron D 347 (D0) easily reach 5GHz at 1.6V with ASUS Commando (which means D0 stepping requires roughly this voltage).
A while ago, I bought a Pentium D 925 (D0) and was aiming for 5GHz with 333x15, but even with a 1.7V setting and Vdroop Mod, I could barely get it to POST at FSB1200 (4.5GHz). What's more, within a few minutes, the "EPS12V connector" (not the VRM!) became so hot that it was too hot to touch (around 60c?).
I think this is beyond the range that a typical VRM on an LGA775 mobo can safely handle.

i have a lga775 with a core 2 quad q9550 at 2.83 ghz and it s perfect.

it also depends what games you want to play.

it can also work very good with core 2 duos , but the later ones , above 2.5 ghz.

also , you need to take into account the gpu and ram.

i run the quad with a geforce gtx 680 and 4gb ddr3 and there is no game i cannot play up to 2011 2012. if you need to play newer than that , then you can use your modern machine.

but for an xp 32 build , anything lga 775 with 2.5 ghz and above is overkill.

did i mention you can oc the hell out of the core 2s? you can easily get to 3.5 ghz or even higher. Games in that period did not make use of more than one core anyway. so it s usually how fast the one core is that matters.

bitzu101 wrote on 2025-11-18, 08:03:

but for an xp 32 build , anything lga 775 with 2.5 ghz and above is overkill.

I don't know why this thread got bumped again, but I ended up getting an E8600. And OCd it to 4.0 Ghz.

So WAAAAY overkill. I probably can play games up to 2010 at 60fps high settings with this CPU + the HD6970.

Mondodimotori wrote on 2025-11-18, 13:09:

bitzu101 wrote on 2025-11-18, 08:03:

but for an xp 32 build , anything lga 775 with 2.5 ghz and above is overkill.

I don't know why this thread got bumped again, but I ended up getting an E8600. And OCd it to 4.0 Ghz.

So WAAAAY overkill. I probably can play games up to 2010 at 60fps high settings with this CPU + the HD6970.

Good choice. The Wolfdale chips were great performers that still had headroom. I'd rank it up there with some of the all time great chips like the Celeron 300a or the Barton Athlons.

Mondodimotori wrote on 2025-11-18, 13:09:

bitzu101 wrote on 2025-11-18, 08:03:

but for an xp 32 build , anything lga 775 with 2.5 ghz and above is overkill.

I don't know why this thread got bumped again, but I ended up getting an E8600. And OCd it to 4.0 Ghz.

So WAAAAY overkill. I probably can play games up to 2010 at 60fps high settings with this CPU + the HD6970.

Very nice. Did you just increase CPU voltage to get 4.0Ghz or something else?

zuldan wrote on 2025-11-19, 21:13:

Very nice. Did you just increase CPU voltage to get 4.0Ghz or something else?

Just FSB. On both the Q6600 at 3.0Ghz (333mhz FSB) and the E8600 at 4.0Ghz (400mhz FSB) I didn't raise voltages. Stresstested the system with full CPU/GPU load for hours, no crashes or similar.

I dunnow if it's the MOBO being good or the CPUs being good samples.