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I strapped a ZALMAN CNPS7700 with arctic silver onto a P4 630HT on my Asus P5LD2-VM and got virtually no change in temps (with load ~47*c, 44*c idle). As for my experience with water cooling...the cost is high like mentioned but DangerDen is the company to go with. a cooling rig from them including water blocks for CPU, northbridge and GPU will run you in the $300 range and it comes with non-conducting liquid so if you get a leak it won't short your board.

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Is not really like that. What processor is better for what? For raw power/gaming an AMD64 might be better. For other tasks or computing needs, a double-core CPU can make a difference in performance. I just switched from AMD to Intel since the Intel platform has more similarities to original Macs, and I must say I don't regreat. Everything works great in OS X, and since I won't ever use Windows again, it's perfect for me. But again, it may be different for your needs.

i forgot somthing very important i´m a graphic designer and

i´m looking to upgrade my old p4 system and i´m betwn the pentium d 805

and the athlon 64 3200 i´ll use with a motherboard based on ati x200 chipset

and 512 of ram i know that is not much but i just have $300 buck right now

so i have to make the choice but i dont know wich of those is better

 

thnks

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About the problems with the P5LD2-VM, I found this tid bit on a review at newegg, thought I would share.

"Cons: Overclocking past 10% hidden due to BIOS bug. Updating BIOS is past most maistream users ability. BIOS update not guaranteed to work correctly even if you do it right!!... More »

 

 

Other Thoughts: In BIOS lock PCIE freq. at 33.3. Move PCI clock to 110,115,or higher while also bumping your FSB speed. My P4630 runs stable @258FSB.(3.87Ghz from 3.0Ghz) Makes tweaking the BIOS fun now!!"

 

I saw this a couple weeks ago and thought it would be a good upgrade to my Sempron, but I prolly wouln't be able to do it untill after July so by that time I don't know if it'd be worth it.

For now I guess i'll go with a macbook.

 

BTW dunklerengel, i'm an AMD guy, but I'd say even if you were doing gaming the 805 would prolly be better depending on how high you can get it. If you read the whole article, @ 4GHz, this chip is pretty much on par with the Athlon FX 60. Unless you have the balls to overclock one of those.

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EDIT the issue below was fixed, the bsod was caused because the dvd-rom was plugged into the wrong ide port..

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A friend of mine has recently (yesterday) undertaken a project to setup a box with the 805, an asus P5WD2 Premium, an MSI RX1600XT, a samsung spinpoint 300gb sata2, and OCZ DDR2-800 (2x512mb), for OC'ing. He also bought a Zalman fan.. (the one with the blue led).

 

We first tried to run this with the standard BIOS settings, but the PC would hang after the first winXP setup screen (where it detects SCSI devices etc) and the BSOD :blink: pops up and asks to have recent installed harddisks removed etc..

 

We changed the DRAM settings to 180 for dual 3,6ghz (from 133) and set the memory setting to DDR2-800 (i think) and the same thing happens. :angry:

 

Is someone familiar with type of setup? I think the OCZ rams are bugging it up. If anyone knows what should be done to have the rams underclocked or how to correctly set it up for 3,6ghz oc.. any hints are welcome.. maybe just trying it with ubuntu live first will help.. (no probably not.. ;-) )??

 

When we finally get xp on there; partition magic and 10.4.6/7 are next.. ;-D

 

Cheers!

:happymac:

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