Conroe Spec (intend to overclock...)

[Nuttah]

Planning on going for the following spec, any suggestions on it and how it will overclock - i'm pretty confident the cpu & m/b will be fine but i'm not overly confident on the memory at the mo....

GX-057-HT HIS ATI Radeon X1900 GT ICEQ 3 SILENT Heatpipe 256MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-057-HT) 1
£129.99 £129.99
CP-126-IN Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) - Retail (CP-126-IN) 1
£116.99 £116.99
MB-061-GI Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-061-GI) 1
£91.99 £91.99
MY-112-CS Corsair 1GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C5 TwinX (2x512MB) (MY-112-CS) 1
£79.99 £79.99
Subtotal £418.96
Shipping (City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)) £8.95
VAT £74.89
Total £502.80

Oh, and I won't be overclocking straight away - will be purchasing a decent cooler at a later date.....

 

[Nuttah]

Anyone got any ideas on this RAM? I know it's specced to 800mhz but guess i'm going to need to clock it higher then that to geta decent overclock out of the processor.....

 

[hyper_piper45]

What is your budget? Is £500 tops or are you willing to spend more?

 

[Nuttah]

£500 was the most I was looking to spend. If we are talking £20-30 though I could probably stretch....

 

[hyper_piper45]

Ok, i would probably swap the ram to GeIL 1GB (2x512MB) PC6400 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX21GB6400UDC) (MY-057-GL) as it is faster and acheives good speeds. Apart from that the system looks fine.

 

[Nami]

Yep I agree, I'd get the Geil RAM Looks great otherwise, some nice components there

 

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Looks good, but if you want a faster GPU then the x1800xt is only £140, or the 256mb x1900xt is £170.

 

[Nuttah]

Looks good, but if you want a faster GPU then the x1800xt is only £140, or the 256mb x1900xt is £170.

Is the X1800xt really that much better? I have heard it is slightly. but was thinking the cooler on the 1900xt will allow me to get a bit extra overclock....