Potential upgrade. Views on how overclockable?

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GAZ_XB9R

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Looking to upgrade my home PC.

Mobo - EVGA Intel X58 (Socket 1366) PCI-Express DDR3
CPU - Intel Core i7 920 2.66Ghz (Nehalem) (Socket LGA1366)
Ram - OCZ 3GB DDR3 PC3-12800 Intel® i7 Triple Channel (3x1GB)

Having never done any overclocking before but being "reasonably" computer savvy, I was wondering what you folks would make of this for some mild overclocking.

Also what cooling would be advisable?

Uses would be mainly gaming.

Cheers,

Gaz
 
You should be able to get a very good overclock out of that, maybe even as much as 3.8 - 4 as some have done. If you get a decent aftermarket air cooler you should be alright to get decent clocks, of course water is also an option if you have the time/money/disposition for it.
 
Was also gonna spec the following graphics card.

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 2048MB GDDR5 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express)

Would the following cooling be adequate?

CPU - Coolermaster V8 CPU Cooler (Socket 940/AM2/LGA775/LGA1366)
GPU - Arctic Cooling Accelero Twin Turbo

Cheers,

Gaz
 
3DMark06 used to be the norm, but not so much these days, 3DMark Vantage is used by quite a few people. There are some threads in the graphics card forum for the benchmark tools included in some specific games like crysis and far cry 2 which would help you to compare. I know superPI is used for specific CPU benchmarking after you have done some overclocking, there is a thread for it somewhere too.
 
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