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Hi Jonathan,

Where did you get your motherboard/processor combo? Sounds like a good price.

thanks,

buzz_X

Some more info on overclocking potential of the d805 in cpu magazine next month's issue they got to 4.05Ghz with the corsair nautalis system.

Well, I just picked up a Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI for $120. It's not the Royal version so no 8-phase power smoothing, but it lets you step up the voltage in .0125v increments up to 1.8 volts so no prob there. I plan on running my 805 at between 3.4 and 3.8 ghz (we shall see if I'm lucky ). Hell, I'd be happy with 3.2 even.

Plus, I picked up 2gb of Patriot DDR2 667 at $160. I'm gonna chuck in a 7900GT first, and then another one in a few months, so I expect this rig to be quite the ass-kicker when it's finished. Woot!

Hey does our mb support intel's next gen processor, conroe?

No it does not. But my next upgrade will be six months from now so a cpu and motherboard to go canroe is a easy step to take from here as where my machine before this was a AMD base and to go to conroe would have ment a whole new machine.

So as i'm seeing..
Using ddr2 667 is the way to go instead of the old 533. Also it's about the same price. So i think the 667 will help the system with his good timing.
What you think. And a main question, for this overcloking; Does a pair of memory stick made for Dual channel is the way to go or any single mem stick can be ok too ?

Asus P5ld2-vm , P4 D805...

I got my 805 from Newegg.com for $128.00 and shipping was free. I ordered it on Friday May 12th and it will be delivered on Monday May 15th. The free shipping was 3 day, but Newegg usually gets it there one day early. NEWEGG rocks, I won't buy anything anywhere else. Spent a little over $3000 there last year.

Hey what's the noise level like? I have my new 805 system but not overclocked and i want it relatively quiet because it's in my room. If I OC it to 3.6ghz is the processor itself going to make more noise?

Thanks Nitehawk92,

Do you know if the SLI boards can use a regulars AGP card? I have some older AGP 4x cards, will they work?

I'm not into games, I just want to use the rig to encode video. Of course, my big fascination is performance per dollar. I think it's a great setup for folks that don't have that much bank.

I'm not going to overclock it to an extreme. For normal use I'll run at 3.6 and for video I'll see if I can do 3.8 Ghz

The only thing I'll get for it is a better heatsink and fan, but that's it.

Buxx_X

Well, the CPU itself won't make any more or less noise - though the fan will be on full-time. To be safe, you'll want to disable power savings and sleep/low-ower modes and have it running like a server - so it'll be a bit noisier.

But the big deal is fans.
Get a new case. You need a basic case with two 3.5 floppy slots and no front door. 120mm fan is a huge bonus.
- Replace all your fans with quieter ball bearing ones. I hard wire-mine into the power supply(bypass onboard control). They are on all the time. Pay attention to the motherboard - install a 50mm ball bearing fan($4 at most) on the southbridge and northbridge. OCd a board and found out the hard way a year later when the southbridge died, even though the temp was always good and it had a massive heatsink.
- Ditch the front fan. Useless.
- Use a Dremel or simmilar - any fan opening that has any sort of metal covering it - cut it out and replace it with a wire finger guard, like you see on your power supply.
- Install a slot fan. video card - blank slot - slot fan. This pulls half of the heat off of the video card. The problem isn't heat but heat that sits still and bakes itself into everything around it. If the top of your case is more than about 20 degrees over room temperature, you have too low airflow.
- put your HD in the lower 3.5 slot. Remove the cover above it. Yes, it's not terribly attractive, but it is your intake. Since it's smaller than the exhaust, it accelerates the air into the computer, cooling it down to 60 degrees or so. The exhaust fans will pull in as much air as they need through such an opening, so you can safely get rid of the intake fan. (cars work the same - it'll pull in as much air as it needs as long as it's not through a straw-sized opening. )

This does a fantastic job of also cooling your hard drive for cheap - and the entire system has nearly zero backpressure on the fans other than the CPU fan. My Maxtor 300 gig HD, which is too hot to touch normally, is 85-90 degrees (F) as a result. Two years without a single hint of failure. My work - had some installed in blades with typical lack of airflow - 3 months or so before they roasted.

I also put a 3.5 floppy adaptor in the 5.25 bay above my DVD drive - same deal - pulling air over it and ditching the intake fan. Yes, since the case has two openings in the front, there is noise coming out of there, but it's half as loud as before. I'll probably move to water-cooling next, just because my CPU fan is making 2/3 of the remaining noise.

Your welcome dude....I have never tried to put an AGP card in a PCI Express slot, but the slots are different. It would really surprise me if you could even get the AGP card in the PCI 16X slot. I am almost positive the slot starts closer to the front of the case. And even if you could get the card in the slot, I can't imagine that the computer would even boot up. The architecture for the PCI X is quite different from the AGP video. NEWEGG Rocks......

This ended up being a waste of 2 days and restocking fees for me.

I used the asus p5wd2-e premium board and patriot 667 ddr2.

It took me one day just to get the damn thing to boot to windows. Once I got it there it would not overclock at all.

Hopefully this was just a matter of bad luck for me, but perhaps not. I did a search when I was trouble shooting and ran into a lot of posts from people having the same problems I was having and almost all of them were with asus boards.

Just a heads-up.

Peace

***edit---typo

Lomotil, Thats just bad luck on your part. I hit 4ghz today. Stable with 1.5v. Gets a little hot at that setting even with watercooling.

SO I clocked it back to 3.8 which only requires 1.45v on my GA-8N-SLI board. (the performance increase from 3.8 to 4 was not noticable)

I run this system now at 3.8 all day and its dead stable. 34 c Idle temp and 45 c to 50 c load temps. Motherboard isnt even breaking a sweat and the memory is cold to the touch.

Granted it is sitting in a kick ass case. The gigabyte case has 3 120mm fans in total. One intake on the front which blows accross the hard drives (of which i have 3) and 2 120mm exhuast fans placed just below the power supply. My power supply has 120mm fan acting as a exhuast and cooling fan for it as well (Aopen 700 watter). I then purchased the water cooling that was designed for this case as well. Only problem i found was that the grapfics cards and the water pump was a bit of a squeese and i couldnt get my audigy in iether. Still trying to make a plan for that.

For the guys who want to look at the case click on the link
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Product [...] uctID=2130

I was thinking about a new system based on the Intel D975BxLRK with a 920 processor with plans to update to a E6000 when the prices are more reasonable. This article to seems to suggest that a ASUS P5WD2-E Premium (is it better?) and a 805 with the appropreate 2G memory overclocked and overvoltaged might be more appropriate to give future upgrading capabiltiy to the E6000 series ( or is this Core 2 Duo). I was was thinking of a liquid cooling system along with vibration isolation and a 120mm fan to get a quiet system. I am not an expert but have an engieering backgroud. Could you give any suggestions.

Thanks Nitehawk92,

OK, I see. So this means I could use an older pci video card in one of the regular pci slots? I just don't want to spend any more $ than what I have to.

I was asking because I don't know all that much about the SLI boards. I kinda felt like perhaps the architecture was different.

Buzz_X

I take my words back. Pretty Impressive.

I guess then that the money spent on a phase change cooler would be well worth it indeed.

For $130 and another few hundred on a Mach II GT, you should be able to get over 5GHz stable and keep it running nicely.

Anybody care to make the investment???