Pentium D

murdock22

murdock22

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I would like to OC my Pentium D, I have tried serveraly other times but have failed.
My Rig:
CPU - Pentium D 930 3Ghz
Motherboard- Asus P5N32-SLI DELUXE
RAM - DDR2 2GB OCZ
Video card - BFG GeForce 7600 GT OC
Hard drives - 250GB SATA WD
Power - Thermaltake 680W purepower
NEC 19" LCD monitor
Full Tower Case - Thermaltake Armor with 25mm side fan

First time I overclocked, I used the AI booster that came with my MoBo, it was running at 3210Mhz or so. Then my computer wouldn't start the next day, but was stable the when i OC'ed. I recieved an error NTLDR is missing or something like that. My first hard drive would not work at all. The thing is that, that hard drive was about 5 years old I figured maybe it was its time. later that week I tryed OC'ing again (using a different hard drive) but used the BIOS, I think the the front bus was at 856mhz and had a mutiplyer of 15 with the same total of 3210Mhz. after shutting down and restarting it gave me error saying there was no boot media. In the end both hard drives were wreaked.The second time I tried OC'ing was a couple months later with using a SATA harddrive, put it at the same settings and had to flash and reformat the hard drive since it was full of errors. Would anyone be able to guild me through or give advice on OC'ing without wreaking a hard drive? thanks
 
Dont overclock from within Windows, always, always do it from within the BIOS.

Look around in your manual on how to get to the CPU Configuration setup page, and start raising the FSB/clock speed slowly.
 
as i understand it, overclocking makes lots of extra heat.
excessive heat kills hard drives. unless you have good cooling, it could be why the hard drives died after overclocking.

i don't really know much about overclocking though. so don't take the above too seriously.
 
zaroba said:
as i understand it, overclocking makes lots of extra heat.
excessive heat kills hard drives. unless you have good cooling, it could be why the hard drives died after overclocking.

i don't really know much about overclocking though. so don't take the above too seriously.
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Overclocking does increase the amount of heat a processor creates (even more so when raising the voltage), but for a minor overclock it doesnt raise it too much.

Also, overclocking and overvolting does decrease the life expectancy of any part that its done to (CPU, RAM, Video Card, ect), but its nothing too major.

Overclocking has nothing to do with the hard drive, and doesnt kill hard drives. And as long as you have good case cooling, it shouldnt heat up your case very much.
 
At the time the temps were low like about 40C under load. I tried overclocking again but when i restart it says it failed, I only tryed to over 150Mhz this time and it fail. What would be cuasing this?
 
under clock your ram first and get a big typhoon or something carefully raise the clock bit by bit untill it's unstable then raise the core voltage (very very carefully) and then raise the clock again and the voltages untill your force to rebot or hit your final ceiling. lower your clock back 10-5 mhz and enjoy a blazing fast PD
 
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