OCing a Pentium D930

[finners]

I wish to get an extra 400Mhz out of a PD930 on air and I am completely new to OCing.
Im yet to build my pc so I will order an improved heatsink and fan over the stock supplied by Intel.

How dangerous is OCing in this case.

I have heard some say you can corrupt HDD files?

What is the likelyhood of this or something like it happening?

Should I go ahead and order my parts with OCing in mind or just buy a more expensive proccessor? I am not goin AMD as I wish to upgrade to Conroe when it comes out so being able to use my DDR2 RAM.

 

[stevty2889]

You can probably get 400mhz on stock voltage, or with very little voltage increase. What motherboard are you planning to get? I recomend the P5WD2 premium, or P5WD2-E premium, you could also try the Abit AW8(would have to look in to it more, as I haven't seen overclocking results with that board yet). 945 and NF4 chipset boards seem to have a common problem of getting stuck at 225mhz FSB with dual cores, so it's hard to get a good overclock on those boards.

 

[finners]

I am open to options and what mobo to get. ( I do want to OC but dont want to spend too much as I will have to get rid of the mobo when I get Conroe next September)

So can I take it that if I dont increase the CPU voltage then I will have no worries of irreversible damage to any parts or files?

 

[boshuter]

Amost any board should let you get 400mhz out of a 930, most of them are very good overclockers. The 2 Asus boards stevty mentioned are the best, but if you are planning on going Conroe then I would just wait until the good boards are out that will run it. Any board that supports Conroe will also run the 930. There are some decent Conroe boards out now, but I would wait for something from Asus or Abit (the P5WD2-E could easily support Conroe but it will have to be a new revision, a bios update won't do it )

 

[Absolute0]

P5WD2 motherboard
heatsink: Zalman 9500, Big Typhoon, Scythe Ninja, or Tuniq Tower. THINK BIG
Get a big case with some airflow

 

[LouPoir]

I have a P930D running at 4.0 in my P5WD2 - air cool with a very slight voltage bump.

I bet it will do more but - who cares - 4.0x2 sure is damm fast.


LOL

Lou

 

[Atheus]

Originally posted by: finners
So can I take it that if I dont increase the CPU voltage then I will have no worries of irreversible damage to any parts or files?

No this is not the case. Files can be corrupted by your system's instability (it cannot do math correctly if badly set up), but more voltage actually gives you _more_ stability at higher speeds (this is why we increase it), and _less_ chance of corrupting anything. The danger of voltage is heat - your fans may not be able to remove the heat and your system could auto-shutdown for safety. Extreme voltage might even kill your chip, but don't worry about that, just make sure you find out the maximum safe voltages.

To be honest I wouldn't worry about corrupting files anyway as you shouldn't be messing with your machine without backing everything up. You will have to install windows anyway for your new motherboard so you might as well overclock with only a clean windows on it and put all your stuff on later.

 

[finners]

Good point Atheus. I will be Ocing on a clean HDD. My computer will be left on continously for several hours conducting high intensive CPU "number crunching". No problen to a system OC'd correctly I hope? I am correct?

 

[bdww00]

lol p4 d!!! hehehe omg large heatsink and some good fans and case

thos things get hot!