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Intel Pentium D

Mista.Gee

Mista.Gee

Mista.Gee

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Cut a long story short.

Hiper Modular 580Watt PSU Type R.
Intel Pentium D 920 2.8Ghz Dual Core Presler Core.
ABIT AW8-MAX Motherboard uGuru.
2x512mb Corsair TwinX XMS2 PC5400 C4 DDR2.
Maxtor 250GB 16MB Cache SATA 2 Hard Disk.
Nvidia Geforce 6200 128MB Turbocache PCI-E.

Do you think this PC is still a good specification and up to the job of todays tasks such as game playing, what if i was to update the Graphics Card, add 2x1GB Memory and Vista Premium.
 
I was thinking of increasing the memory 2x1GB Modules, and maybe either 8800gts if not then a X1950 Pro. I was just wondering if the Pentium D was still upto the job of todays gaming.
 
Talking about overclocking, i would fancy raising it to say 3.0GHz if i can on the stock cooler, is it possible not being greedy on the overclock am i? Stock cooling should be ok for just a slight increase shouldn't it.

If so how would i go about giving it a slight boost.
 
How do i overclock, the motherboard is a AW8-MAX 955x Intel chipset with uGuru supposed to be the dogs nuts for overclocking.

I also have 2x512mb of Corsair XMS2 PC-5400C4 DDR2 Memory i know the gpu is a tad bad but i am replacing this next week, so how do i start to overclock what should i raise in order to get this started. The temps on my cpu at the moment at stock speeds are 29.0c.

Obviously going to replace the GPU for a HIS X1950 Pro ICEq model, and up the memory to 2GB.
 
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Will do cheers for that advice, i did have a 7900gt a few months ago which played oblivion with no problems at all until it died on me, so i though it would be a good idea to get a new card and start to tinker with some settings and get the most out of what i got.

Is it really worth upgrading to a core 2 duo if i change the memory and the graphics card and a tad bit of overclocking.
 
Just read the Overclocking Guide, very interesting is that all it is down to is raising the FSB by 5Mhz a time and running certain programs to see if it is stable? just raised to 205Mhz and it's running quite stable at 2.87Ghz not much of an overclock but it's a start.
 
Won't be going that far with it but i'm making small 5mhz increases, may stop around 210-215 to be on the safe said, i have to say that the uguru makes overclocking very easy.

Temps are still at 29'c to 31'c. Just want to hit 3.0GHz.
 
Yea i'm thinking of getting a bigger cooler at the moment with the stock cooler now. I've set it at 211 and its running at 2.94Ghz, temps are around 34'0c and 37'0c need a better cooler.
 
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I don't think he does have a 920 if it's 2.8GHz, it should be a 915 (or possibly an 820, depending on what's been read incorrectly). I'm just being picky. :p
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Yup it's a 920, i still got the box and cpuid quotes it as a 920, got it now running at 3.0GHz with low temps and running fine on a stock cooler.

Not going to push it any further until i get a new cooler.
 
No worries bud.

What would be a good cooler for my CPU as i'm running at 3.0GHz on stock cooling but want to go that little more before i upgrade.
 
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