Hello everybody. This is my first post. I'm from Venezuela.
I just bought a Pentium D 805 thinking that I was going to be able to overclock it a little (3.33
GHz) to test my abilities...
The problem is that I intendended to do it without buying any additional cooling and buying only crappy components... this is what I got:
- CPU: Pentium D 805 2.66 GHz Retail
- Motherboard: Foxconn P4M800P7MA-RS2 (Chipset VIA P4M800 Pro+8237R)
- Memory: Blitz ('barely value') DDR2 533 MHz
- Case: X Tech 600 W power supply. No fans in case.
Besides that, there is another concern. I live in a small town where the average temperature is
34-38 ºC (I'm not kidding, it's hot like hell) and my computer is in the living room, where there
is almost no ventilation, no fans and no air conditioning.
Once I installed the PC... I started to try to install Windows XP... but the damn computer froze
everytime because of the massive heat built in the CPU (I didn't even try to overclock it). So I
had to wait 'till the sun went down and the room temperature got to 30ºC and opened the case and
put a 250mm mini-fan to blow some air into the case...
After that, I installed Win XP and flashed the BIOS with the most recent version... but then I
installed Doom 3 and run a 'timedemo demo1' to see how many FPS it gaind over my old system
(Sempron 64 2800+ 1.6 GHz)... The result were HOOOOORRIBLE! The new system was actually SLOWER!
Both system were tested with an EVGA GeForce 5500 256 MB AGP 8X and both used 512 MB of RAM
(Sempron's was DDR 333 MHz) and both mobo were based on VIA's crappy chipset (Sempron's was
K8M800/VT8237R+) and both were Micro ATX formfactor.
The test was using Doom 3 V1.0.1262. Medium Quality. 640x480 and default advanced settings.
This were the results:
Sempron 64 2800+: 29.9 FPS
Pentium D 805: 29 FPS
I ran the test SEVERAL times and rebooting several times and the results were ALWAYS the same
(the first run always gave around 2 FPS less on both system).
Then I tried to overclock. But saw no difference at all. With the help of CPU-Z and RightMark CPU
Clock Utility I realized that the system didn't overclock at all. The 'SuperStep' Utility from Foxconn also doesn't work. It claims to change the FSB on the run but any change on it and the PC freezes instantly.
Later, I ran the test in Window mode and saw with the RightMark Utility that when the 'timedemo
demo1' was running the CPU temp goes from 50-55 ºC to a whopping 64ºC-69ºC. The multiplier (FID)
also goes from 20 to 14 and the CPU clock/throttle from 2.66 GHz to only 1.86 GHz. Neither core
gets even more than 70% use. The CPU Fan cooler works from 1400 RPM to 1900 RPM
Now, the questions is. Is this normal? What should I do? Keep in mind that I don't want to spend
more than 50$ to fix this problem...
Thanks everybody!
I just bought a Pentium D 805 thinking that I was going to be able to overclock it a little (3.33
GHz) to test my abilities...
The problem is that I intendended to do it without buying any additional cooling and buying only crappy components... this is what I got:
- CPU: Pentium D 805 2.66 GHz Retail
- Motherboard: Foxconn P4M800P7MA-RS2 (Chipset VIA P4M800 Pro+8237R)
- Memory: Blitz ('barely value') DDR2 533 MHz
- Case: X Tech 600 W power supply. No fans in case.
Besides that, there is another concern. I live in a small town where the average temperature is
34-38 ºC (I'm not kidding, it's hot like hell) and my computer is in the living room, where there
is almost no ventilation, no fans and no air conditioning.
Once I installed the PC... I started to try to install Windows XP... but the damn computer froze
everytime because of the massive heat built in the CPU (I didn't even try to overclock it). So I
had to wait 'till the sun went down and the room temperature got to 30ºC and opened the case and
put a 250mm mini-fan to blow some air into the case...
After that, I installed Win XP and flashed the BIOS with the most recent version... but then I
installed Doom 3 and run a 'timedemo demo1' to see how many FPS it gaind over my old system
(Sempron 64 2800+ 1.6 GHz)... The result were HOOOOORRIBLE! The new system was actually SLOWER!
Both system were tested with an EVGA GeForce 5500 256 MB AGP 8X and both used 512 MB of RAM
(Sempron's was DDR 333 MHz) and both mobo were based on VIA's crappy chipset (Sempron's was
K8M800/VT8237R+) and both were Micro ATX formfactor.
The test was using Doom 3 V1.0.1262. Medium Quality. 640x480 and default advanced settings.
This were the results:
Sempron 64 2800+: 29.9 FPS
Pentium D 805: 29 FPS
I ran the test SEVERAL times and rebooting several times and the results were ALWAYS the same
(the first run always gave around 2 FPS less on both system).
Then I tried to overclock. But saw no difference at all. With the help of CPU-Z and RightMark CPU
Clock Utility I realized that the system didn't overclock at all. The 'SuperStep' Utility from Foxconn also doesn't work. It claims to change the FSB on the run but any change on it and the PC freezes instantly.
Later, I ran the test in Window mode and saw with the RightMark Utility that when the 'timedemo
demo1' was running the CPU temp goes from 50-55 ºC to a whopping 64ºC-69ºC. The multiplier (FID)
also goes from 20 to 14 and the CPU clock/throttle from 2.66 GHz to only 1.86 GHz. Neither core
gets even more than 70% use. The CPU Fan cooler works from 1400 RPM to 1900 RPM
Now, the questions is. Is this normal? What should I do? Keep in mind that I don't want to spend
more than 50$ to fix this problem...
Thanks everybody!
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