My Upgrade

TheMorningStar · 26 Jan 2009 at 23:48

thinking of this, feel free to comment.

AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 940 Black Edition 3.0GHz (Socket AM2+) - Retail
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-236-AM

DFI Lan Party DK 790FXB-M2RSH AMD 790FX (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-053-DF

OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-8500C5 1066MHz Reaper HPC Edition Dual Channel DDR2 (OCZ2RPR10664GK)
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-110-OC&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=817

Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (WD10EADS)
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-246-WD

will be getting 2 sets of the OCZ 8500 Reaper for a total of 8gb, although i have heard that 4 sticks of ram will take my ram down to 6400 can anyone comment on that? could i just manually overclock the ram back to 8500? or will this kill my overclock potencial/stability?

would like to hit around 3.6ghz min on air so a good yeat quiet cpu cooler would be good if anyone could recomend one, although i may not be buying one in this order

also looking for an adapter to turn 3 5.25" bays into 4 or 5 3.5" bays if anyone could sugest something.

TMS

lrlcr · 27 Jan 2009 at 00:13

for the adaptor try this

TheMorningStar · 27 Jan 2009 at 00:23

lrlcr said:
for the adaptor try this

hi lrlcr, cheers but i already looked at that as my tower is a Voodoo branded Lian Li case so that would have gone perfectly but i need a minimum of 4 HDD bays and that unit only offers 3

lrlcr · 27 Jan 2009 at 00:28

you could bodge something out of these perhaps? put them in the 1st and 3rd bays with some mechano and washers!!!!

TheMorningStar · 27 Jan 2009 at 00:36

lrlcr said:
you could bodge something out of these perhaps? put them in the 1st and 3rd bays with some mechano and washers!!!!

lol im sure whatever that link was pointing at would have been a giggle but looks like the web address was sensored by the OCUK guys

lrlcr · 27 Jan 2009 at 00:42

I figured they might do that, as they don't stock a particular product, but basically it is a j shaped metal bracket that bolts into the 5.25" bay, putting the HDD at the bottom of the bay or the top depending on the mounting, if you had right way up j at the bottom and upsidedown j at the top then bodging as above.

TheMorningStar · 27 Jan 2009 at 00:52

ah well nevermind. i would actually like something pretty slick to mach in with the rest of the case anyway