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[bailes550]

Antec NSK 6580 Super Midi Tower Case - 430W Earth Watts PSU

OCZ 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 XTC Series DDR2

(OCZ2P800R22GK) Intel Core 2 Duo E2180 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.00GHz (800FSB) -

Retail Samsung SpinPoint T 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD501LJ)

Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775)

Gigabyte GA-G33M-S2 Micro ATX (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard

Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 32-Bit Edition DVD - OEM - 1Pk (66I-00715)




Few Questions on the spec above (would be looking at overclocking.

- Is it worth getting the arctic freezer 7 pro, or sticking with the retail cpu fan. Speeds im after 3 ghz

- I'll probrably have 40 quid spare. Any suggestions on how it could be improved or anything that i can add on extra. the budget is 400. total so far would be 360

- Does the spec look ok

 

[Theguy]

any reason your going m-atx?. you might be better off (as your wanting to overclock) going for say, the p35 pro

O i notice you dont have a gfx card, that would explain why u went m-atx.. sorry

 

[semi-pro waster]

I'm not sure how well that motherboard overclocks, I know that the Abit Fatal1ty is/was supposed to be one of the best in mATX for overclocking but that may have changed by now.

Any particular reason for going with Vista 32bit? I'd personally either go with 64bit for the ability to use 4gb+ of Ram or stick with XP.

 

[scott wilcox]

i have just been playing with vista 64 premium on my home build machine and have to say i am dissapointed with it. Too many issues like the well documented file transfer speed has killed the experience for me (i.e yes the "Woe starts now" feature). So i would stick with xP. Maybe when service pack 1 is freely available it will be a different story. But if like me you already have xp then i would re-use it and save the money for something else.