Spec check!

[Spirit7]

Have just ordered the following (no need for a PSU or GPU - have 4870 512mb and Antec TruePower 650w):

Intel Core i7 920 2.66Ghz (Nehalem) (Socket LGA1366) - OEM £207.99 1 £207.99

Order Total: £246.61

Akasa AK-967 Nero Direct Contact Heatpipe CPU Cooler (AM2/AM2+/939/LGA775/LGA1366) £26.99 1 £26.99

Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) £5.99

Order Total: £43.65

Asus P6T Intel X58 (Socket 1366) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard £179.99 1 £179.99

Corsair 6GB DDR3 XMS3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz (3x2GB) Triple Channel DDR3 (TR3X6G1600C9) £134.99 1 £134.99

Western Digital VelociRaptor 150GB 10000RPM SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (WD1500HLFS) £134.99 1 £134.99

Lian Li PC-A71B Aluminium Tower Case - Black (No PSU) £129.99 1 £129.99

Order Total: £678.44


Look good? Also, for someone who has never o/c'd before, how easy is it to get a low-medium overclock? Is it just a question of bios fiddling wth multipliers or will I have to crank up volts and RAM speeds too?

Many thanks!

-C

 

[95thrifles]

for a low OC you'll be fine tweaking the FSB freq, you dont have to worry about volts, just leave on auto, multipliers can only be tweaked (up) with extreme chips though, just for info

 

[BigBruiserAl]

You brought some nice kit there, however IMO i would have gone high end air cooler to keep the temps down a bit more if your planning an overclock but that should be be running 3.0ghz+ with just a bump of FSB no sweat

 

[PCDave]

get the noctua cooler instead will give u great oc'ing potential

 

[ekam]

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