help with overcloking intel pentium d 805

[bravotsx]

Originally Posted by marsy11

no, you see i checked on google and it lead me to a youtube video which a guy used a pentium 3 processor and 192 mb of ram and great quality..... using 3d analyze.

If you read a description of the program, it is basically a virtual graphics card that piggybacks on your existing hardware while reporting whatever options you choose. It seems to have the ability to emulate some functions in software but more likely, it just throws away the requested unsupported render options. If the game needed pixel shader 2.0 (directx 9) and you only had a pixel shader 1.4 graphics card (directx 8), 3D Analyze could help. It can also allow you to launch games with higher requirements by fooling the game into thinking you meet the requirements, though know that you are sacrificing a lot to get there. There's a youtube vid of doom3 running on a low-end laptop...while it is an achievement of sorts, it looked like Quake 2, and it lagged like crazy.

Check out this article: http://www.ign.com/articles/2004/11/...parison?page=2

The takeaway is that the software can't actually *improve* your graphics card's performance, especially if you're using a modern card (which the 8400gs is). The 8400gs supports the necessary functions in most games though its rendering performance is another story.

[marsy11]

to save me from being in crap i just downloaded gta 4 to check and hopefully it works anyways thx.

[buttons]

I have to ask, what do you hope to accomplish by overclocking that system ? I am somewhat familar because i just dumped a freebie system that was based on intel pentium D820. I got it up to 3.4ghz and it was still slow as molasses in January.

my system was snappy at surfing the web (though it had a brand new 320gb sata II WD hard drive) gaming was awful, even with a geforce 470 GTX.

[marsy11]

10-4 buttons, my pc worked great b4 I downloaded programs and kept deleting them instead of overclocking I am going to back up my HDD and reformat. I done it before I think its the best idea in the situation. Thanks to everyone for helping out this is the end of the thread but other posts for help are allowed if anyone needs help feel free to post any info.

Additional Comment:

I messed up my family computer man they re angry so will reformat my computer then reinstall apps it'll be like the first day I took it out of the box in 2006.