Pentium D805

Fulcrum · 16 May 2006 at 19:28

Ive brought it all just waiting for it to arrive now and give it a go, the motherboard was asrock twins which is a compromise but like I say its a budget system so I cant have it all. Iam pretty sure they'll have to update the bios for conroe even if it is hardware compatible and maybe they'll let the volts be modded from that bios version onwards

Bennah · 16 May 2006 at 19:32

The setup wont be compatible with Conroe. Conroe and Merom need new boards. Something to do with the power setup on the current 955 and 975 chipsets.

Intel 975x 'Bad Axe' rev 302... is the only board thats out now and can be modded to use a Conroe by the looks of things now.

The only thing that would be compatible with Conroe, would be the memory, psu, gpu etc. Would need to get a new board.

Fulcrum · 16 May 2006 at 19:36

Well it was just a bonus not a deciding factor but here is there link -

http://www.asrock.com/product/775Twins-HDTV R2.0.htm

If it turns out iam wrong its np as I wont have the need for anything faster really, if it turns out they are wrong then maybe I can join a class action against them for a free motherboard

Bennah · 16 May 2006 at 19:42

Yea, there was talking on another forum about it.

iirc the spec on the .tw site or one similar to that said nothing about Conroe support.

Ive not seen any people using Conroe on the board yet.

I might be wrong, but I doubt that the board would support Conroe. Who knows. Only time will tell when someone try's a Conroe on it...

Fulcrum · 16 May 2006 at 19:59

http://www.asrock.com/support/CPU_Support/em64t.asp

They say p1.30 in their cpu chart which seems to be a bios version released on 19th april

Also their chinese site says the same
http://www.asrock.com.tw/support/CPU_Support/em64t.asp?Language=Chinese

Recently updated maybe ?
http://www.asrock.com.tw/product/775Twins-HDTV R2.0.htm

Mikey1280 · 16 May 2006 at 20:01

Asrock said:
'LGA 775 for Intel Dual Core Pentium XE / Pentium D and Pentium 4 / Celeron D, supporting Core 2 Duo Desktop (Conroe)'

That board claims to support Core Duo (conroe), is this correct?

Bennah · 16 May 2006 at 20:02

must have been updated then...

Unsure about weather it actually supports Conroe...

Fulcrum · 16 May 2006 at 20:09

Mikey1280 said:
That board claims to support Core Duo (conroe), is this correct?

Nobody knows, Iam guessing yes and it says so which is pretty surprising from a budget board maker.
Maybe its because its not an intel chipset, no doubt intel wanted to sell lots of new chipsets to go with the new processor but these guys working off a white paper or whatever came up with some clever solution based in present technology.
I only heard about conroe a few weeks ago so dont ask me

andyfield · 16 May 2006 at 20:15

at 3.5 - 3.8 how loud is this chip / cooler combo. I'm ideally after a silent (or very quiet) system.

Cheers guys

BigDom · 16 May 2006 at 20:27

Depends on the cooler, but the stock one seems pretty quiet. My system is pretty quiet, certainly doesn't cause a noticeable amount of noise to my ears.

Mr Mister · 16 May 2006 at 21:08

do the Pentium D's come with the POS coolers you used to get with P4's? I thought they were uber loud?

Fulcrum · 16 May 2006 at 21:16

I bet the stock cooler is ok, it talks about 4 pin though and thought it would have to be 3pin to be speed controlled. Anything retail comes with the cooler I think but mine isnt being supplied with one so Iam going to use a Zalman flower which should be better anyhow

andyfield · 16 May 2006 at 21:24

I was thinking about the Thermaltake BigT as it has good reviews but depends on the noise really. Will do some more research. Ta

Mr Mister · 16 May 2006 at 21:36

BigT is a good cooler, but im on an even bigger budget than that so freezer pro for me

gam3r · 16 May 2006 at 21:47

Im really thinking of getting myself a rig with this CPU but im worried about its gaming potential once overclocked to say 3.8GHz. I wanna know if it will run recent games maxed out with a x1800xt.

Anyone shed some light?

Combat squirrel · 16 May 2006 at 22:12

gam3r said:
Im really thinking of getting myself a rig with this CPU but im worried about its gaming potential once overclocked to say 3.8GHz. I wanna know if it will run recent games maxed out with a x1800xt.

Anyone shed some light?

Be fine, most games fsb and graphics blocked anyways, run at higher res and any cpu seems to produce same fps with most graphics card

Webster · 17 May 2006 at 13:47

Minstadave said:
Its probably about the same, maybe a little slower at stock. But is supports SM3.0, runs a lot cooler than the X850XT, doesn't need an external power connector and clocks very nicely indeed (it will outperform an overclocked X850XT).

Failing that there are some amazing second hand bargains in the MM at the moment.

MM? Classifieds? If so what are the requirements for access... 100 posts or something similar?

Fulcrum · 17 May 2006 at 15:40

Combat squirrel said:
Be fine, most games fsb and graphics blocked anyways, run at higher res and any cpu seems to produce same fps with most graphics card

Same here, which game really needs 3.8ghz cpu ? I ran my system at 1.2ghz accidentally the other day and didnt notice for an hour on BF2 :eek:

gam3r · 17 May 2006 at 16:00

im still trying to find out as this chip would be used for gaming.

BigDom · 17 May 2006 at 16:02

Fulcrum said:
Same here, which game really needs 3.8ghz cpu ? I ran my system at 1.2ghz accidentally the other day and didnt notice for an hour on BF2

Depends on the game, FPS really aren't that CPU intensive as they don't have complex physics engines etc.

Combat Flight sims OTOH can REALLY crease a CPU. Put a dog fight of 30-40 aircraft together and you'll need all the horsepower you can get.