Could someone give me a quick once over on this spec please?.

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Hi there and I hope you all had a merry Christmas this year. I'm just about to order myself an upgrade or two to the rig in my sig. I'm keeping the 2x 250gb Hard Drives as well as the Corsair HX 620W (just bought it for this PC) as well as the case and speakers.

I'm looking at what is the better buy concerning the RAM I've selected. The better overclocking potential will win it as I'll be going for a 45nm CPU when they are released in Dual Core flavour.

I use a ViewSonic P225f Series CRT for gaming with a resolution of 2048x1536 @ 79Hrtz so that is why I have opted for the GTX. I'm hoping the IP35 Pro will be better for overclocking than the standard IP35 and especially more so for Penryn Dual Core.

Has anyone got any advice they'd like to give as I was meant to be buying this in January with time to research but I got the sudden urge after seeing the GTX and the IP35 Pro take a little dive in price. Will the cooler do me for Penryn or is there a better air cooler I could get?.

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I only added the DVD writer as I gave my Pioneer 112 away on christmas day to a friend for his kids PC.

Thank you for any replies given. :)
 
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All looks like a good spec system but i'm wondering why you've put two different makes of RAM down?

For RAM if you're looking to overclock then maybe consider this:

I've recently purchased some of the normal Geil kit that overclocked really well when i bought my first set a year or so back, but the latest stuff doesn't do much over stock. The Black Dragon is the slightly higher quality RAM for overclocking. Also by going for 8Gb of ram i take it your going for a 64bit system?

On the graphics card side of things then its completely up to you, i would personally go for the new GTS or 2 GTs in SLI as the OCuk ones can be had for just over 160 quid i believe.
 
Thank you for the reply.

You can't do SLI on a P35 board, nor would I even bother with it as the 256 bit memory interface is why I'm going with the GTX because of my resolution. I was going to consider 2x 3870's/3850's but I'll be happy with 1 card and just drop the resolution if need be.

The reason I put two different makes of RAM down is to eliminate one brand so it'll be either 4gb of Geil or OCZ in 1Gb sticks as they overclock better than the 2gb sticks. I just want the ones (if known) that overclock better out of the two. Is there an answer to this or is it too varied to even estimate?.
 
I really do not see why people buy Abit boards for clocking?! :) I would recommend either:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-253-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=946

or if thats to expensive

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-241-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=913

Both are excellent clockers... In regards to the RAM the GeIL ULL is excellent, certainly should be fine up to FSB speeds of 450mhz @ 4-4-4-12 with a little extra volts on the RAM and Northbridge
 
Pneumonic said:
I really do not see why people buy Abit boards for clocking?! :) I would recommend either:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-253-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=946

or if thats to expensive

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-241-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=913

Both are excellent clockers... In regards to the RAM the GeIL ULL is excellent, certainly should be fine up to FSB speeds of 450mhz @ 4-4-4-12 with a little extra volts on the RAM and Northbridge
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I'm kind of stuck at the moment as I have to order before 3PM so I get it 2moro and I just stuck in £640 in the bank 20 minutes ago. Also I've heard great reports about the Abit IP35 Pro. In fact you're the first person I've heard to say to avoid it? :confused:. (Help)

I'll go with the Geil ULL though ;). Just unsure about your IP35 statement.
 
Pneumonic said:
I have herd nothing bad about the Abit boards they are very good... Just general opinion is that the Asus board clock better
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Ahh. Well I had to order before 3pm so I got my stuff 2moro so I had to just go with the IP35. I would have got the Maximus Formula but I had already made the trip to the bank to stick the money in and I'm a little ill with the cold/flu to make a second trip as well as not have the time.

Thank you for the help :). I got the Geil ULL RAM :).
 
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