Overclocking Pentium D

[Patchett]

I have never overclocked anything and i got this computer: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&docname=c01270768
and im pretty sure it has a Pentium D 915 and i was just wondering if i could get 3.2ghz out of it on stock cooling and if my mobo even lets me overclock it, and i dont know anything about how to overclock it like voltage and things so if you could help it would be appreciated.
Also heres a little more data just in case you need it (looked semi-use full)
From CPUZ
Number of cores 2 (max 2)
Number of threads 2 (max 2)
Name Intel Pentium D 915
Codename Presler
Specification Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80GHz
Package (platform ID) Socket 775 LGA (0x2)
CPUID F.6.5
Extended CPUID F.6
Core Stepping D0
Technology 65 nm
Core Speed 2400.1 MHz
Multiplier x Bus Speed 12.0 x 200.0 MHz
Rated Bus speed 800.0 MHz
Stock frequency 2800 MHz
Instructions sets MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, EM64T
L1 Data cache 2 x 16 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size
Trace cache 2 x 12 Kuops, 8-way set associative
L2 cache 2 x 2048 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size
FID/VID Control yes
FID range 14.0x - 14.0x
VID range 1.116 V - 1.324 V
only changes from the compter in the link is 2 gb ddr2 ram instead of 1 and a geforce 210 1gb ddr3.

 

[ish416]

That motherboard does not support overclocking. Also, if you could, it would not make much of a difference.

 

[warrior_richard]

Your processor only has two cores. Over clocking it by a few ghz would not make a diffidence or at least a noticeable one.

 

[ish416]

Your processor only has two cores. Over clocking it by a few ghz would not make a diffidence or at least a noticeable one.

It has nothing to do with how many cores it has. The Pentium D series was just plain poor in performance as the the AMD Athlon X2's were much faster at lower clock speeds. They suffered the same problems as the P4, poor peroformance because the NetBurst archicture was all about Mhz and not about performance with those Mhz (terrible IPC or Instructions Per Clock).

The Pentium D is basically two Pentium 4's on the same CPU die.

 

[theonerm2]

The overclock wouldn't help a great deal if you could do it. Most likely you would need to overclock through a software program such as set-fsb. I would say that you would be lucky to see 3GHz that way. If it would even work at all. Your computer is very outdated. You need a new one.

Even if you threw this into your case with all your other existing hardware still there it would run circles around what you have now and for only around $100.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103953&IsVirtualParent=1

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157309

 

[Patchett]

Aww well that sucks to hear =/ but thanks everyone for the helpful answers.
Thanks theonerm2 for the recommendations, but im limited to my current mobo because if i swap it windows vista would need to be reinstalled and i dunno where the discs went. As for the cpu im thinking im just gonna get a used Pentium core 2 duo e6750 for around 20$ on ebay.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trksid=p5360.m570.l1311.R4.TR5.TRC1&_nkw=intel+core+2+duo+e6750&_sacat=0&_from=R40