First Overclock, Varifocal Me

Xionic

Xionic

Xionic

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as the title says, new to overclocking. buying a new PC. ive been trying to decide what to buy for the last couple of weeks, get paid on friday so heres what i got (budget of £1300)

CPU: AMD Opteron 170 (2.0Ghz)
GFX:Connect3D ATI Radeon 1900XT-X
RAM: Mushkin 2GB DDR XP4000 Extreme Performance
M/BOARD: DFI LanParty ULTRA-D
HDD: Western Digital Caviar SE16 320GB
PSU: Hiper Type R 580W
CASE: ThermalTake Saprano Case
DVDRW: NEC ND4551 16x16 DVD±RW/RAM
O/S: Windows XP Home - OEM

Total: £1,311.43


already have a LCD, K/Board N Mouse

as you may of noticed i havent speced a cooler, have had a lot of good advise over the last few weeks from the members here but still cant decide. id just like to point out this PC is in a attic so noise is not a problem

im wanting to try and get atleast 2.6ghz from the CPU and also overclock the RAM, the machine is intended for serious gaming so only 24/7 stable clocks are needed, so wont be pushing it too far

any improvements/advise you can add to the spec would be great

Thanx In Advance

Xi
 
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from what ive read the new SATA II 16MB cache HDD's are performing almost aswell as the raptors. i may buy a raptor later on but cant justify spending that much money when i dont believe it would really benifit me that much
 
was nearly six hours, and this wasnt the thread i meant to bump, it was the one in the general section

and as for the first bump which was only after an hour, it was on the second page

sorry :(
 
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