Time to Upgrade

[cleric]

My p4 3.4 system may be getting a bit long in the tooth now,so after havin a look round on the forums i'm almost ready to order....wait for it.

Abit IP35 Pro (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
1 x OCZ 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-8500C5 1066MHz SLI-Ready Edition Dual Channel DDR2 (OCZ2N1066SR2GK)
1 x Tuniq Tower 120-LFB CPU Cooler (Socket 478/754/939/940/AM2/LGA775)
1 x Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g)
1 x OcUK Overclocking Guide - Abit IP35 Pro, Q6600, 2GB OCZ PC-8500, Tuniq Tower, AS5
1 x Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB
Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 320GB SATA-II 16MB Cache
OcUK GeForce 8800 GT 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/DVI (PCI-Express

My Hyper Type R psu will be ok to run this i take it.
Vga card was my only concern as my "bliss 7800 GS" is an AGP an not suitable

Have i made the right Vga card choice..
Your thoughts please.
Thx

 

[semi-pro waster]

Your Ram is overkill unless you are doing some pretty hefty overclocking and you don't really need to purchase the overclocking guide, the information is freely and easily available on the Forums.

I'd probably pick 4gb of decent PC6400, it will cost you about £20 more but is a better option overall I'd say.

The graphics card is fine and your PSU shouldn't prove to be a problem.

 

[cleric]

Not done any O/cing before so the bundle package is an ideal option for me and the prouduct has very good reveiws with customers reporting O/C's up to 3.4g also i,m far to lazy to search forums for the info,but thx for your input

 

[Ben M]

PSU shouldn't prove to be a problem.

Fingers crossed though i guess.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17694588&highlight=hiper-active

I agree with semi though, that RAM is definately overkill, if you keep the mobo and chip the same, it should overclock the same on PC6400 RAM, 8500 only really matters at pretty big overclocks (500+ FSB) which i doubt you'll be doing; as you said yourself that you havn't overclocked before.

Not a lot of searching has to be done, there are stickied guides in the overclocking forum, and all you have to do for specific questions is post and ask.

 

[Slashiem]

Yeah the overclocking guide isnt needed well because i have never overclocked before but i would feel comfortable in what im doing because i have read a fair amount of stuff on the forums.
Save the pennies on the RAM as mentioned above and buy a bigger 500GB harddive maybe depending.
Or more than likly plan for the future for the new psu.

~Slash

 

[milkinc13]

personally i would change the PSU as Hyper Type R's are known for blowing and taking other hardwarer with it, only PSU that are reliable are Corsairs, unless anyone can recomend any better

 

[cleric]

The hyper has served me well over 2 years now with the pc on for 12 hours daily sometimes much longer.On my currant system it;s prob never had a good workout lol

 

[cleric]

4 gig of ram do i really need that much i dont play that many games but when i do i like it fast n furious.Small HD i know but i only ever have one game on pc at a time,dont download that much either.
Only other query is the tuniq cooler gonna fit in my xblade case ¿