Hi everyone. My first post here. hopefully the first of many happy future posts but for now i am getting very close to throwing my machine out in the street and beating it to death with a big stick
PC spec is as follows
Thermaltake mozart tx case
2 x WD raptor 320gb HDD
1 x 1TB spinpoint HD
1 x old hdd (possibly 320gb??)
pioneer 108 dvdrw
Asus p5b mobo
Pentium d805 cpu
4gb corsair dominator xms2-8500 memory
Leadtek 7800 GTX
swiftech apogee cpu block
laing D5 pump
tygon tubing
i think it was an nx78 waterblock for the graphics card
reservoir etc al the usual addons and a 120.2 rad
Wonderful i thought. i can finally have my ni ce fast machine with lots of extra sace for electronic bells and whistels in the really oversized case.
but no it didnt want to play did it.
The first problem.
How the hell do you setup two WD raptors in a striping array using a p5b ??
after about 4 or 5 days i got sick of trying every different bios setting i could think of and reading every post about the p5b and decided to just install everything onto one raprtor instead.
next problem.
I read the wonderfuly toms hardware guide on overclocking ther d805 which is what promted me to get this cpu / borad combo in the first place. mmm dual core running at 4.1 GHz would have been lovely. i have the best Oc gear for the job so the only issue i might come across would be the cpu beign from a bad batch in which case i was happy to settle for a lower clock maybe 3.8 ish or even 4.01 if i was lucky
so i adjusted the clock and lo and behold it booted with no problem and there it was 4.01 GHz. Brilliant !! until i restarted it. at which point it said there was some sort ofissue with the bios and that it didnt want to boot. i set the same settings again after a load defaults but it wouldnt boot into windoze.
i never did get that overclock back again. I spent so many hours trying to get it back that i just gave up and thought i would come back to it in the future at some point as i had som work to do and couldnt spend any moe time mesing around with my pc.
So. i start using my pc and after a while i notice some sort of wierd distortion on the side of my monitor and i think i miust have caused the issue when i installed the graphocs waterblock. maybe it isnt seated properly.
so i take it out remove all the arctic silver and reapply and everything seems fine again.
until yesterday
for some reason i turned the pc off because i was going to bed early and didnt have anything to leave it on for. normally i would never switch it off but hey
it will not turn back on. from what i can tell the board is dead. if i short the two wires on the psu so it turns on then i get the blue light at the bottom but thats it. no boot no nothin
so i have now been two days trying to get an old pc to work so i can get back to my emails etc.
Rant Over
My question is.
A should i reall be trying for the 4.1 overclock. ?? is it really attainable. i think the kit i have should support it but i seem to be running into various problems.
My board is dead. What would you suggest i do now. replace with the same or go for a p5k deluxe maybe?? ifyou werw building a big main pc which you wanted to be really quick what would the best combination of boar and cpu be?
I want something fast i am happy to spend some money on it but i would also like the satisfaction which a good overclock gives you. i have read quite a few posts about the q6600 should i go for one of these?
I am pretty out of touch with the hardware scene so please go easy on me and thanks in advance for your replies.
Sip
PC spec is as follows
Thermaltake mozart tx case
2 x WD raptor 320gb HDD
1 x 1TB spinpoint HD
1 x old hdd (possibly 320gb??)
pioneer 108 dvdrw
Asus p5b mobo
Pentium d805 cpu
4gb corsair dominator xms2-8500 memory
Leadtek 7800 GTX
swiftech apogee cpu block
laing D5 pump
tygon tubing
i think it was an nx78 waterblock for the graphics card
reservoir etc al the usual addons and a 120.2 rad
Wonderful i thought. i can finally have my ni ce fast machine with lots of extra sace for electronic bells and whistels in the really oversized case.
but no it didnt want to play did it.
The first problem.
How the hell do you setup two WD raptors in a striping array using a p5b ??
after about 4 or 5 days i got sick of trying every different bios setting i could think of and reading every post about the p5b and decided to just install everything onto one raprtor instead.
next problem.
I read the wonderfuly toms hardware guide on overclocking ther d805 which is what promted me to get this cpu / borad combo in the first place. mmm dual core running at 4.1 GHz would have been lovely. i have the best Oc gear for the job so the only issue i might come across would be the cpu beign from a bad batch in which case i was happy to settle for a lower clock maybe 3.8 ish or even 4.01 if i was lucky
so i adjusted the clock and lo and behold it booted with no problem and there it was 4.01 GHz. Brilliant !! until i restarted it. at which point it said there was some sort ofissue with the bios and that it didnt want to boot. i set the same settings again after a load defaults but it wouldnt boot into windoze.
i never did get that overclock back again. I spent so many hours trying to get it back that i just gave up and thought i would come back to it in the future at some point as i had som work to do and couldnt spend any moe time mesing around with my pc.
So. i start using my pc and after a while i notice some sort of wierd distortion on the side of my monitor and i think i miust have caused the issue when i installed the graphocs waterblock. maybe it isnt seated properly.
so i take it out remove all the arctic silver and reapply and everything seems fine again.
until yesterday
for some reason i turned the pc off because i was going to bed early and didnt have anything to leave it on for. normally i would never switch it off but hey
it will not turn back on. from what i can tell the board is dead. if i short the two wires on the psu so it turns on then i get the blue light at the bottom but thats it. no boot no nothin
so i have now been two days trying to get an old pc to work so i can get back to my emails etc.
Rant Over
My question is.
A should i reall be trying for the 4.1 overclock. ?? is it really attainable. i think the kit i have should support it but i seem to be running into various problems.
My board is dead. What would you suggest i do now. replace with the same or go for a p5k deluxe maybe?? ifyou werw building a big main pc which you wanted to be really quick what would the best combination of boar and cpu be?
I want something fast i am happy to spend some money on it but i would also like the satisfaction which a good overclock gives you. i have read quite a few posts about the q6600 should i go for one of these?
I am pretty out of touch with the hardware scene so please go easy on me and thanks in advance for your replies.
Sip
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