Heofz
12-26-2006, 06:41 PM
Hi everyone, hope you've all had a merry christmas!
The joys of having a birthday on christmas eve immediately followed by christmas has resulted in me receiving a fair bit of spending money, and now I'm finally getting round to upgrade my machine :D
My Mach II Phase unit is currently away being modded by Ian Parry from these forums, so the main objective of this pc upgrade is to make the most of this cooling by getting the highest overclock possible, and thus the best performance (obviously).
The components I'm looking to purchase are:
CPU - got intel e6600's in mind, seeking a good batch week for high OC. Is there any way I can guarantee obtaining a good clocker? I don't mind paying a little bit extra if that's the case
Mobo - ASUS P5B-Deluxe/ASUS P5W-DH/Abit AW9D-MAX ? Which Should I Choose? Or would it be a good idea to wait for the new nForce chipset mobos?
RAM - Obviously I'll need DDR2. 2GB preferred, the most important thing is that it won't hold back the overclocking, but my expertise unfortunately lies with non-DDR2 memory. Which should I get?
PSU - Must be powerful enough to cope with big overclocks and whatever else I might throw at it in the future (at least 600W), must have good v-rails and also have a modular cable design as I hate redundant cabling dangling around inside my case
Now from what I've been researching so far from reading these forums and articles on the net, as long as the above listed things are ok, and the phase change performs as expected, I'm optimistically hoping for a 24/7 overclock to at least 4.2Ghz. Would you say this is realistic? It would be
I'm looking to spend about £800 - £900 (That's roughly $1700 US).
Any advice/recommendations would be greatly appreciated :)
The joys of having a birthday on christmas eve immediately followed by christmas has resulted in me receiving a fair bit of spending money, and now I'm finally getting round to upgrade my machine :D
My Mach II Phase unit is currently away being modded by Ian Parry from these forums, so the main objective of this pc upgrade is to make the most of this cooling by getting the highest overclock possible, and thus the best performance (obviously).
The components I'm looking to purchase are:
CPU - got intel e6600's in mind, seeking a good batch week for high OC. Is there any way I can guarantee obtaining a good clocker? I don't mind paying a little bit extra if that's the case
Mobo - ASUS P5B-Deluxe/ASUS P5W-DH/Abit AW9D-MAX ? Which Should I Choose? Or would it be a good idea to wait for the new nForce chipset mobos?
RAM - Obviously I'll need DDR2. 2GB preferred, the most important thing is that it won't hold back the overclocking, but my expertise unfortunately lies with non-DDR2 memory. Which should I get?
PSU - Must be powerful enough to cope with big overclocks and whatever else I might throw at it in the future (at least 600W), must have good v-rails and also have a modular cable design as I hate redundant cabling dangling around inside my case
Now from what I've been researching so far from reading these forums and articles on the net, as long as the above listed things are ok, and the phase change performs as expected, I'm optimistically hoping for a 24/7 overclock to at least 4.2Ghz. Would you say this is realistic? It would be
I'm looking to spend about £800 - £900 (That's roughly $1700 US).
Any advice/recommendations would be greatly appreciated :)