PD 805 winging its way to me..

Arthalen

Arthalen

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Well fella's, I've just done the dirty deal and this is winging its way to me now...

Pentium D 805
Asus P5WD2 Motherboard
2GB (2x1GB) Corsair Value Select DDR2 533
Thermaltake Big Typhoon HSF Cooler
Artic Silver 5 Paste
SilverStone FM121 Fan (110CFM!)
HiperPower 580Watt PSU

Along with what I have already:

Thermaltake Soprano Case
Asus Geforce 6600
2x WD 40GB HDD
DVD-Rom & CD-Writer

Wish me luck - this is by far the biggest overclocking project, and the riskiest, I've ever attempted. I'll post updates and news as I go along (if anybody is interested!)

AIM: To hit 4ghz, but I'll settle for 3.6!
 
Anyone had anyluck with changing the fan on the Tt BT at all ? I was going to go a little crazy and but the Fan above on it for some real HC air cooling...
 
Well, I'm glad to say the parts have all arrived nice and safe, so I'll sign off now and wish me luck ! First LGA 775 system I've put together :D
 
Well, im sitting here very happy -

All the parts have arrived on time.
PC is now fully built.

PC is working Great!

To say I'm a little relieved is an understatement, as although I've built plenty of K7 PC's and a couple of P3 and K8 PC's, this is the first time I've dealt with LGA775. Not only that, the Thermaltake Big Typhoon WAS A NIGHTMARE to install. I had to even get the sandpaper out for the brack to fit in in correctly!

The motherboard seems to be a superb peice of kit, very nicely designed and laid out, and the PSU I've puchased is excellant. Even has the new fangled 8pin attachment that the motherboard likes :D

For the record, on starting this little project:

CPU Temp in BIOS at 2.6Ghz: 43C
MB Temp in BIOS at 2.6Ghz: 30C
Vcore is steady at 1.3V ... plenty of room to clock with methinks! :)

Yet to start the overclocking with this thing, I'm just gonna flash it to the latest BIOS and get windows installed.

Hopefully, once Windows is on I'll post a few Pics.
 
Good luck, that seems quite a high temp just for stock but thats dual core I guess. Is it possible to just overclock one core and keep the other stock for those multitask things
 
Nahh, its an all or nothing deal for oc dual cores I belive.

Anyways, got windows on last night, sorted out a few programs and all my drivers and SP 2 this morning.

Got Dual Priming going at the moment to test temps and were stable at 52C at full 100% load on both cores. Not bad.

Good news - Rightmark is telling me that required Vcore of rthe chip is only 1.275, and its currently at 1.3vcore at idle, so I should have some room to overclock this afternoon.

Bad News - Super Pi score is disgusting ... 49 seconds.... admittedly I've dropped the mem down to DDR2 400 and loosened the timings a lot as It'll be the bus I want to push the most.

any other Benchmarks I can do to see a baseline performance before I go off OC'ing ???

Cheers,
 
Fulcrum said:
Good luck, that seems quite a high temp just for stock but thats dual core I guess. Is it possible to just overclock one core and keep the other stock for those multitask things
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Thats a Smithfield core for you, unfortunately. Its nothing to worry about at this stage, Im hoping my Big Typhoon will improve in its performance as I push it more up and up (*gulp* I hope).

Prime Update: All good, nice and stable at 53C, no throttling, no vcore variations and Case/motherboard temp is stable.

Looking forward to turning this thing up this afternoon! :D
 
Raikiri: Oooh of course - lol remember Aquamark 3 from when I was benching a 9600 Pro lol.

Off to get the baselines now.
 
Baseline Performance:

AquaMark 3 33,662 (GFX: 4305 - CPU: 7712)
3DMark 2001SE 12,102

:rolleyes: Hmm, not the best in the world, but then I knew the Video card isn't the best in the world.

Have to see how much this Thing can go up :D
 
graphics are holding you back quite a bit :p got 23,800 in 01 with my x800gto 128mb and 71k (10,500ish graphics and 10,800ish CPU) in Aquamark 3 (@3.7)
 
What are your temps like at 3.7 Raikiri, Iam not sure if temps should be worried about. Maybe its a case of divide by two and thats normal.

I found out my zalman will fit with an adapter kit, its all copper and beastly so with enough fans I hope it'll be upto it.

Can the cores be clocked seperately?
 
36-38 idle and around 58-60 load using stock cooling with MX-1 thermal paste, max safe temp for these would be 65c load, 70 pushing it.

And nope, you have to clock both cores at once
 
I'm interested to see how you get on with this. I have a off the shelf brand name PC, all at stock P4 3GHz HT, 1GB DDR1 CAS3, 6800GS AGP and get about (18k 3Dmark01) and (8,700 GFX - 8000 CPU, 56k AquaMark 3). I was tempted to upgrade to the 805 but I bought the 6800GS instead.
 
Okay, step one is fine - FSB Set at 144mhz, running at 2.88Ghz and no issues. Stable for an hour and temperatures are still normal, really.

Infact they've dropped a bit. Could be that the AS5 I've used has cured properly.. weird.

Time to go higher...
 
harris1986 said:
nicely, just out of interest what cpu did u have b4 the 805?
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Me? I had a Sempron 2600 on a Skt 754 Asus K8N4-E Deluxe mobo. Pushed it from 1.6Ghz to 2.3Ghz on stock volts to Vcore as the motherboard didn't support the option!
 
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