spec check

gary_j · 17 Feb 2008 at 20:26

Could you check my spec please!

Would like it to be suitable for a nice bit of overclocking

intel quad q6600 2.4Ghz, 8mb cache + Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme + Sharkoon Silent Eagle 2000 120mm Fan

Asus P5K Premium/WiFi-AP Intel P3

G.Skill 4GB DDR2 PQ PC2-8000C5 (2x2GB) F2-8000CL5D-4GBPQ

BFG GeForce 8800 GT OC 512MB GDDR3 + Thermalright HR-03-GT VGA Cooler + Sharkoon Silent Eagle 2000 120mm Fan

Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKS)

Sharkoon Silent Eagle 2000 120mm Fan - 3/4 Pin x 2

Akasa Mirage 62

Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU

Samsung SH-S203NBEBN 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer Lightscribe ReWriter

Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g)

Akasa AK FC-03 Fan Controller Pro

Total around £960

Also already have 2 x raptors for raid 0

Cheers, Gareth

jak731 · 17 Feb 2008 at 20:28

should get you to at least 3GHz, unless you get a bad OCing cpu

you could run that on the hx520 by the way

also pc2-8000 ram isn't needed unless you want to use a lower multiplier or want more then 3.6GHz without ocing the ram

gary_j · 17 Feb 2008 at 20:30

i thought id go for the hx620 incase i upgrade anything

jak731 · 17 Feb 2008 at 20:32

thats completely your choice and i wont argue with you, i would have done the same myself

gary_j · 17 Feb 2008 at 20:43

great minds think alike!

Yea im not 100% on the ram, i was looking at some Corsair 4GB DDR2 XMS2 PC2-6400C5 TwinX (2x2GB) but thought id be better off buying some a little faster so it didnt need to be overclocked as much. Saying that i dont plan on going over 3.6Ghz!

jak731 · 17 Feb 2008 at 20:49

to get to 3.6 without ocing the ram, you will be running the FSB at 400 and the multiplier at 9, some people like a higher fsb and lower multi so for some higher then 800 MHz ram is prefered