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So I did my 3 year PC upgrade. My new system consists of:
Mountain Mods H20 case with Corsair 850W PSU
ASUS Rampge III Extreme X58 motherboard
Intel i7 560 OC'ed to 4.26 Ghz/core with a Watrercooling setup
XFX Radeon 5970 Black Edition
6G Corsair Dominator RAM
OCZ Vertex 2 120GB SSD
2...
I built a new rig around theis mobo in Oct and finally have it stable at 3.3Ghz/core. Details:
Intel Q6600 Quad Core OC'ed to 3.3 Ghz/core
Thermaltake V1 HS with Arctic Silver 5
ASUS Maximus Formula SE mobo
OCZ Reaper DDR2-1150 memory (4x1GB) running stable at 1200
XFX 8800 GTX
Seagate...
Everything I read says 64 bit Vista isn't quite ready for prime time. So I went with the 32 bit... Would I have to buy a whole new copy of Vista 64-bit if I did want to go to that?
This box is for gaming... older games as well as the latest and greatest.
I finished this build, and now have reached my final stable OC as well. I ended up with:
Intel Q6600 Quad Core OC'ed to 3.3 Ghz/core
Thermaltake V1 HS with Arctic Silver 5
ASUS Maximus Formula SE mobo
OCZ Reaper DDR2-1150 memory (4x1GB) running stable at 1200
XFX 8800 GTX
Seagate...
Thanks for this guide... I had not done any OC'ing since the original AMD Athlons, so I was out of date on knowledge. using this I have gotten my Q6600 on an ASUS Maximus Formula SE with a Thermaltake V1 and OCZ Reaper DDR2-1150 at 3.26Ghz on all cores stable, and my temps are still pretty...
I am looking at building a new Gaming Rig with the following components:
Intel Q6600 CPU Quad Core
WD Raptor 150 GB HD (x2)
Mountain Mods Twice7 case
Asus P5K3 Deluxe/WiFi-AP Motherboard
Mitsumi 7 in 1 Media Drive
Corsair DDR3 2GB TWIN3X2048-1333C9
MS Vista Home Premium OEM ed
XFX...
http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/11/29/geforce_8800_needs_the_fastest_cpu/page10.html This basically says that w/o bleedingtedge CPU, you just won't get your $ worth out of a 8800.
Thanks for the input guys, I decided to wait... I had no plans to get Vista anytime soon... Everything I read...
No its not :( My Zalman fine would handle it, but my memory doesn't seem to - every time I push it hardly at all (using MSI's built in OC functions) it begins having problems, even though the CPU stays around 100 deg Fahreneit even under load... I have assumed its the memory but haven't taken...