Best upgrade for overclocking!

AlexTrickle

AlexTrickle

AlexTrickle

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Spec to be carried over:

Intel C2D E8600
4GB GeIL Black Dragon PC6400
Artic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro
Corsair HX620
(HDDs + Optical Drives)

So need a good motherboard, case, fans and maybe a new cpu cooler.

Budget £250

Would like to get my E8600 to above 4Ghz (without using water) - any recommendations?
 
Asus P5N-T Deluxe nForce 780i (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard Asus P5N-T Deluxe nForce 780i (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £131.99
(£151.79)

Antec 900 Nine Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black (No PSU) Antec 900 Nine Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black (No PSU) £64.99
(£74.74)

Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) £5.99
(£6.89)

Sub Total : £202.97
Shipping : £9.99
VAT : £30.45

Total : £233.42

no need for fans, this case has enough, and use that AS5 TIM to the cpu and an arctic freezer 7 pro should cope just fine getting the E8600 to 4GHz+ probs get around 4.2-3GHz easily enough.
 
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For good OC for sure don't go for nvidia 7xx SLI chipset - the worse you can get.
P45 chipset will be the best choice (easy to OC) - I'd recommend DFI DK P45 or Asus P5Q-E or Pro.
The sugestion above is very good.

PS.IMO you should change RAM for something better - Geil is not so good with OC ;)
 
an sli board for overclocking?

i would go with a p45 board and get stuck in

post #3 is your best bet
 
Bear in mind that the Arctic cooling 7 isn't really an overclocking fan, with it's open ended fan design it's more suited for silence and tends to underperform by comparison with some more dedicated coolers at high loads (still whups the intel one though), all that said, it's what I've got and I can run my E8400 at 4 gig without the temps getting much over 65 degrees and for me it's a good compromise (it really is Very Quiet Indeed up to about 70% speed).
Serious overclockers I feel ought to look elsewhere and spend at least twice as much to be frank.
 
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