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Finally made a decision..

Alf4

Alf4

Alf4

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Decided this it what im going to buy on the 15th Jan 2007 (pay day):

GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC) £147.99
Asus P5B Deluxe (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £104.99
Leadtek GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £242.99
Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £105.99

Couple of questions though, im going to overclock and am hoping to hit 2.6Ghz - 2.8Ghz. I've read this be achived with the stock cooler? or safer to blast the Credit Card a little more and get say a Artic Pro Freezing 7?

Will I have to modifiy volts, mem timings etc to hit 2.8Ghz? Any one give me some pointers as to what i should start with? I know many of you have done this so ball park would be great (PS I will be printing out this thread to refer to during build)

Does the stock cooler come with a thermal sticker attached and should I replace with paste?

My PSU is a Tagan 2force 520 U22, enough juice for all the above?

Anything else anyone can think of that I should consider before hitting the buy button.

Sorry to be a pain but the last build I did was a mates P4 1.9Ghz 478Skt on a ASROCK Mobo and my over clocking skills are limited to nudging the FSB bus up by a couple of Mhz and I have never really modified Volts or mem timings. Other than that most my build have been at stock so I know my way around a BIOS and can put parts together but Im hoping to get the most outta my 6300 :) so appreciate your words of wisdom :)

Im looking to keep this machine for while TBH at least 2-3years!

Alf
 
get an aftermarket cooler, the freezer 7 pro is supposed to be good, and comes with good thermal paste applied, but get some AS5 just in case you need to reseat it of soemthing.

You should be able to hit 2.8GHz on stock volts, but it may take a little extra to hit 3GHz+ (1.350V rather than 1.325V as an example), and that ram should be good for quite a high clock.
 
Will I have to adjust the multipler to hit 2.8Ghz?

What does the 6300 come as outta the box multipler wise?
 
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