420 Overclock

[Ryan Leech]

Some 10 years ago Intel released the Celeron 420 based on a low power variant of the Core 2 architecture. It was cheap, slow, and somewhat power efficient. The chip was only used in compact cheap industrial PCs so it never received much attention in its day.  For those interested in the specs: https://ark.intel.com/products/29734/Intel-Celeron-Processor-420-512K-Cache-1_60-GHz-800-MHz-FSB

Thus today is 4-20, making the perfect occasion to overclock the Celeron 420.

 

We start off with the stock 1.6GHz base clock and see what we can get. The Cinebench R15 score is abysmal compared to really anything else after 2005. We only managed to score a 28. That's right, just 28.

 

As for our overclock I made it to 3.2GHz comfortably, but anything beyond that, the system would not post. I used a Seidon 240m on a GA-EP45-UD3P and 4GB of G. Skill 800MHz. As you can see with the base clock at 3.2GHz we managed to get that score up to a blistering 49 points, still well below even a stock Core 2 Duo E6300.

This CPU doesn't have the performance even when overclocked. If all you need to do is check email with no background tasks this CPU may fit the bill but it's difficult to recommend it for anything more.

 

 

[DildorTheDecent]

Blaze it

[RGProductions]

See how high you can get it with a billion volts! Blow it up!

[Phate.exe]

Blow it up, put it in a shadowbox on the wall.  It's more useful for the amusement and memories than it is as a functional CPU at this point.

[Guest]

Me considers this title clickbait. Well, at least it lured me here with false promisses.

[shadowbyte]

this is wonderful

[Ryan Leech]

3 hours ago, Dutch-stoner said:

Me considers this title clickbait. Well, at least it lured me here with false promisses.

 

I utilized Linus' clickbait title style