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Hello Guys, I am new here, thought I would say hello. I need/want a little more performance from my 3 + year old Core 2 Duo based system so I went out and bought a Phenom 955 + motherboard, then felt guilty and cancelled the order. 
To be honest for what I do a Phenom 955 is more than overkill. My gaming is on the PS3 and the only thing I use the PC for is as a media server for streaming content to PS3 via PS3 media server, or I convert movies to VOB using MKV2VOB copy them over to the ps3 etc. On occassion I do a bit of photo editing too but that is it. I will be upgrading to Windows 7 and may get a few RTS games so would be nice to have a little more oomph!
My PC is still fine the way it is but I needed to spend money on something electrical so what I decided to do as a little project was to overlock the processor a little. My Asus motherboard is crap, an Asus P5-VD2-MX and will only overclock from 1.87GHZ to 1.997GHZ!! So a new Motherboard it is. I could have bought an expsensive motherboard but after reading a few things about the overclocking ability of the Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L decided it was fine for what I wanted, besides I wanted to keep things cheap as possible and I am not after a mega overclock.
I also bought a new Piano Black case and will buy an uprated cooler as well. I have to check the speed of my ram as from what I have read this can restrict potential when overclocking. I Have 3gb and am pretty sure it is 667mhz but due to my current motherboard it is running at 533mhz. A friend of mine has 1x 2gb 800mhz ram which he said he will give to me so hoping that it will be sufficient?
Once I get everything installed I will probably be asking some stupid questions should I get stuck.
Also, just curious, how compariable would a Core 2 Duo E6300 clocked to 3.20GHZ be if comparing to an E8400 and how high a clock would an an E6300 need to match or supass if that is possible?
Anyway sorry for the long post, thanks.
Ryan
To be honest for what I do a Phenom 955 is more than overkill. My gaming is on the PS3 and the only thing I use the PC for is as a media server for streaming content to PS3 via PS3 media server, or I convert movies to VOB using MKV2VOB copy them over to the ps3 etc. On occassion I do a bit of photo editing too but that is it. I will be upgrading to Windows 7 and may get a few RTS games so would be nice to have a little more oomph!My PC is still fine the way it is but I needed to spend money on something electrical so what I decided to do as a little project was to overlock the processor a little. My Asus motherboard is crap, an Asus P5-VD2-MX and will only overclock from 1.87GHZ to 1.997GHZ!! So a new Motherboard it is. I could have bought an expsensive motherboard but after reading a few things about the overclocking ability of the Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L decided it was fine for what I wanted, besides I wanted to keep things cheap as possible and I am not after a mega overclock.
I also bought a new Piano Black case and will buy an uprated cooler as well. I have to check the speed of my ram as from what I have read this can restrict potential when overclocking. I Have 3gb and am pretty sure it is 667mhz but due to my current motherboard it is running at 533mhz. A friend of mine has 1x 2gb 800mhz ram which he said he will give to me so hoping that it will be sufficient?
Once I get everything installed I will probably be asking some stupid questions should I get stuck.
Also, just curious, how compariable would a Core 2 Duo E6300 clocked to 3.20GHZ be if comparing to an E8400 and how high a clock would an an E6300 need to match or supass if that is possible?
Anyway sorry for the long post, thanks.
Ryan
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) to match my other AV equipment! I then thought I may as well change the motherboard if I am going to change my case as everything needs to come out, then that got me thinking of a new CPU etc but I just settled on the motherboard.