anyone OC'd a pentium D 830 ( 3.0Ghz) ??

[R B Customs]

hey guys...
ive been searchign and searching for information on overclocking pentium D 830's
and not had much luck
anyone got any ideas on what wuld be a SAFE overclock for it ?
ive never overclocked before ( been trying to get and old PC upand running to practice on bt its bust )
its running at 3.0G now, 200x15, 800 FSB and its a smithfield core

in a nut shell its the 200 number that you increase which inturn gets multiplied which increases e core speed yea ?

also my board has some asus AI *** overclocking application thing on it... how do these fair up ?
Rick

 

[valerian]

not the pentium d 3.0ghz, but i have overclocked the pentium d 3.2 800 seriesmany times, it is overclocked by 5% now as we speak, i have had it running at 3.36, 3.6, and occasionally 3.8, but that appeared less stable, i imagine you could overclock your 3.0 to 3.4 at without too much difficulty.
i have the Zalman CNPS9500-LED, from OC, on it and it runs as high as 65c but i have had it as low as 37 under no load dependent on the ambient temp. also 120 mm fan front and rear of the case.
i have the zalman on almost full when playing games.
i have fond memories of the artic freezer cooler however i feel the freezer cooler made the most significant change over stock. and unlike this zalman you dont have to remove the board to install it. i also overclock it using the asus ai. it works fine, if the computer hangs during boot up when you are being too adventurous with the overclocking. boot from cold, and the ai will reset itself to default worse case scenario reset bios on board.

 

[Webzta]

I'd be aiming for 3.8-4.0 on the setup in your sig.

The older PD's aren't nearly as good as the 9x's..

throw out a lot of heat and don't generally perform brilliantly.

Nevertheless they are dual core, and you "Should" be able to hit 3.8-4 on it.

As far as clocking them, obviously you're going to be upping the fsb, stick with stock vcore for now and raise it up in 5-10Mhz increments, use PCMark04 as a quick stability tester, then raise the fsb some more.

Pop your mem on a divider to start, and possibly up the chipset volts by one notch.

Good luck!

 

[R B Customs]

3.8 -4.0 !!! my knowledge of overclocking is small... but that seems liek a HUGE overclock. ( potentialy unsafe ? )
im stuck witht eh smithfield core atm, so cant do anything about that
so... using that ai booster thing..
i can rais the 'external frequency' from 200 upwards in intervals of 1.0mhz
does htis overclockt he memory too ? or does that stay the same ?

the aibooster also has options for pre-set overclocks: 105%, 110%, 115%, 120%
and
FSB960/800
FSB1280/800
FSB1000/667
and so on...

im not gonna do this yet. im just getting soem gorundwork for a couple weeks time... simple answers liek these are hard to find ! without getting bogged down with information !

thanks guys
( p.s mods... sorry i know ive posted this in the wrong place, purly accidental as i had cpu and oevrclocking fourms open at same time )