Quote Originally Posted by Mechromancer View Post
Also since you're going to take the time to build an AMD system, the SB750 motherboards are supposed to be out August 6th. You may want to wait until next Monday to make a solid decision.

Now to actually answer your questions.
1) Make sure you have a strong PSU to drive 2+ GPUs plus an overclocked CPU and motherboard.
2) High end air cooling will allow 3.2Ghz on a Phenom, especially if you have an SB750 backing your overclocking endeavors.
3) That ram will get the job done for overclocking. DDR2-1066 is better but oh well, you already have 8GB of high quality DDR2-800!!!

I've yet to see any overclocking on that Phenom 9350e except for a Tweaktown review....(http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/152...ore/index.html) and I don't trust Tweaktown all that much. The 9350e is 2.0Ghz though so it'll probably get the job done. Price wise though, may as well look at higher clocked Phenoms like 9550 or 9650s.
I have to wait till then to order a board anyways, so maybe I'll look into it then. I don't want to spend more than 150 though, unless there's a VERY good reason. I also don't want to remove any stock cooling. I'd only buy a 3rd party cooler (TRUE probably) for the CPU.

My ddr2 800 kit OC's like flies ****, pardon my french. The gskill kit will do 1066 though, so I can drop that in there if I need to.

I might consider the more expensive 9850s or even 9950s. Since they will be idle a lot, the power draw isn't that high, right?