My Pentium D 805 runs correctly at speeds greater than 3.62GHz after all.

Remember when my video card died? Well, apparently, it suffered from a slow failure and not a sudden one, therefore being the cause of my previous primary machine’s inability to clock higher than 3.62Ghz. On a whim and in an effort to cure a horrible pang of boredom, I started playing around with my secondary machine (my previous primary). During my play, I decided to screw with the clock settings again on the slim chance it would work. It did.

When I was running it as my primary machine, I started getting stability problems up at 3.9GHz, so I had to slowly clock it down over the course of about 3 months, eventually reaching 3.62. Starting tonight, it’s been running 2 instances of POVRay benchmark at 3.80 without a hicckup, so, perhaps the old chap can run up at 3.90 like it did when I first got it.

Remains to be seen ….