Overclocking spec check please.

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I'm thinking of upgrading my main components and would appreciate opinions on a spec for overclocking. I need 8 Sata ports and an e-sata so had to take that into consideration when selecting the motherboard.

Keeping the following:

Corsair HX620 PSU
Optical and hard drives (74GB Raptor + storage drives)
Akasa Eclipse 62 case

I have selected the following:

Q9550
Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme CPU Heatsink
Asus P5Q Deluxe Intel P45 board
Corsair 4GB DDR2 XMS2 Dominator PC2-8500C5 TwinX (2x2GB)
HIS ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 2048MB GDDR5 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail

Any thoughts?
 
Still think the TRUE is not as good value as the tuniq tower 120, you have to buy a fan on top of it's cost.
You are paying £20 + fan cost or so more for a few celcius better.
Personally I'd get an E8600 the rest looks good to me.
 
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I hear what you say about the TRUE. It's expensive here but that was one of the two components i was going to get elsewhere (for £35 inc) so even including the fan, there's not much in the price.

Also, i'm pretty set on going quad core over dual for video and music editing/multi-tasking.

The RAM was one of the main components i am unsure about as i know next to nothing about it.
 
Can you stretch to an x38 or x48 mobo? I'm not sure how they work exactly with a 4870x2 (i.e do you need Crossfire to run it?), but I'm think I'm right in saying that a P45 chipset will only run two PCI-e slots each at 8x bandwidth. I'm guessing this is not a problem with a 4870x2 as it's single slot, but it would be if you ever wanted to get a second one ;)
 
Namistai said:
Can you stretch to an x38 or x48 mobo? I'm not sure how they work exactly with a 4870x2 (i.e do you need Crossfire to run it?), but I'm think I'm right in saying that a P45 chipset will only run two PCI-e slots each at 8x bandwidth. I'm guessing this is not a problem with a 4870x2 as it's single slot, but it would be if you ever wanted to get a second one ;)
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Thanks. No plans to run a second card.

Will my PSU be up to the job with the spec in my first post?
 
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