I have a mach II GT phase change cooler. After reading about the different cpus trying to figure out which one is faster. A pentium 4 D 960 or A Pentium 4 670. I'm looking to overclock as high as possible, but from what I read the dual cores put off alot of heat and I was unsure if my cooler could handle it if I extreme overclocked a pentium D 960 ? & if It would be faster give me a higher benchmark then an overclocked pentium 670 ?
I'm thinking of using an Asus P5WD2 Premium motherboard or P5WD2-E Premium but unsure which is better for overclocking and which has wider CPU support, I was hoping that one of these boards would support both the pentium 670 and pentium D 960 & the pentium extreme edition CPU's, and maybe conroe & conroe XE if possible.
I have a radeon x1900xtx toxic version by sapphire
2 GB corsair DDR2 XMS2 twin matched pair 2x DDR-8500
4 sata 400 GB drives raid 5
i have an enermax 620watt PSU (wondering if that is good enough to support an extreme overclocked pentium d processor)
also if there are such thing as pentium D CPU's with unlocked multiplier.
read something about certain features like speedstep or eist being disabled on accident like a manufacturing defect with all the pentium D core cpu's is this true and does it matter ? what do tose features do mean ?
I also read that the pentium D processors aren't hyper threaded ? does that mean both cores in a pentium D look like only one physical CPU to the OS like windows XP ?
should I change the passive heatsink on the clock crystal i believe its called northbridge that comes on the above mentioned asus motherboards to an aftermarket active Heatsink with fan so that I wont have heat issues when running it at high FSB speeds like high 300's to 400's however high I can get it to go ?
Any light on the subject would help since im trying to make a super fast system and want it to be as overclockable as possible and hopefully be a board that will support conroe so I could change cpu in the future to conroe
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I'm thinking of using an Asus P5WD2 Premium motherboard or P5WD2-E Premium but unsure which is better for overclocking and which has wider CPU support, I was hoping that one of these boards would support both the pentium 670 and pentium D 960 & the pentium extreme edition CPU's, and maybe conroe & conroe XE if possible.
I have a radeon x1900xtx toxic version by sapphire
2 GB corsair DDR2 XMS2 twin matched pair 2x DDR-8500
4 sata 400 GB drives raid 5
i have an enermax 620watt PSU (wondering if that is good enough to support an extreme overclocked pentium d processor)
also if there are such thing as pentium D CPU's with unlocked multiplier.
read something about certain features like speedstep or eist being disabled on accident like a manufacturing defect with all the pentium D core cpu's is this true and does it matter ? what do tose features do mean ?
I also read that the pentium D processors aren't hyper threaded ? does that mean both cores in a pentium D look like only one physical CPU to the OS like windows XP ?
should I change the passive heatsink on the clock crystal i believe its called northbridge that comes on the above mentioned asus motherboards to an aftermarket active Heatsink with fan so that I wont have heat issues when running it at high FSB speeds like high 300's to 400's however high I can get it to go ?
Any light on the subject would help since im trying to make a super fast system and want it to be as overclockable as possible and hopefully be a board that will support conroe so I could change cpu in the future to conroe
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