Advice for running a Pentium D 805

[Arthalen]

I was originally going to go for a Asus P5LD2 standard motherboard to run and overclock the above chip. I've since noticed that I can afford a bit more though now for the motherboard, and want to go for something a little better to perhaps get a better overclock result.

Any suggestions ? I can got to around £100 - £110 max for the board.

Oh btw, if it changes the decision anyway, the PSU I intend to use is the Hiper 580Watt Type-R Blue. The chip will be air cooled with a Big Typhoon.

Cheers,

Arthalen.

 

[utherpendragon]

You're not going to need a decent board with a 805 due to the 20x multiplier. A 800mhz bus will give you around 4ghz, it's going to be the cooling or the chip that will hold you back. Buy the board you want for the features not the overclocking. Great thing about intel systems are being able to run your chip at the next next fsb speed (533>800 800>1066)

 

[Tooks]

I'm running one of these chips on a ECS PF5 Extreme mobo at 3.2Ghz on an Artic Freezer 7 Pro. This runs the Intel 945P chipset.

It's a board I got off a mate FOC because I was having all kinds of problems with an ABIT NI8 GR SLI Nforce4 board. At stock speeds, I was getting data transfer errors all of the time, and random crashes so I RMA'd it.

He suggested trying this board to make sure it wasn't RAM, the chip etc.

So far, fingers crossed, this little ECS board hasn't put a foot wrong, and although I'm not keen on the flashing lights on the PCIE slots, and the North/South Bridge fans are a bit noisy, the fact that it appears to be rock solid stable at the above overclock has really won me over!

In due course, I'm going to go for a 975X chipset, probably from Asus, but for now this is giving me good fun overclocking!