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I am trying to put together an inexpensive system and overclock it as high as possible. I am hoping to do some cheap overclocked gaming PC write up on it when finished. I will be powering the following: C2D E4300 oc'ed as high as I can get it Gigabyte DS3 mobo 1gb x's 2 of Crucial Ballistic...

Good call, thanks.

Anything under 100 bucks??

I am building an overclocked rig for as little money as possible, I am trying to do a write up on it when I am finished. Does anyone have any suggestions on a cheaper power supply that is good for overclocking? So far I have C2D E4300 - $115 Gigabyte DS3 - $89.99 And I scored some...

So you are saying I could get nearly the same performance out of an E4300? What's the big deal with the Penryn and P35. I can't do any research now, as I am busy at work.

Do you say to stay away from it because it doesn't cool well, or because it is so damn huge?

Try this... I assume no responsibility for you cooking your CPU, thanks. Oh, and it appears this app only supports older motherboards. I highly doubt there is anything that works on newer boards.

I'm pretty sure there are utilities that will allow you to change fsb and vcore, etc, on the fly - but they don't actually change your bios settings, they access your mobo directly and change the values. So when you reboot, your bios settings take over again.

Thanks guys, that was very informative. I'm opting for the core duo E6420 now in light of your suggestions. And I am also going to bump the video card up to 640mb, as I am going to be running this thing on a 37inch LCD at high resolutions. I just wanted to know if 4 sticks of ram will...

Hey all. I have recently decided to build a new rig, and being the cheap scum-sucker that I am, I want to keep my price-performance gap as large as possible while overclocking the pants off of it. I have done a little research and have chosen some components. I was hoping for some friendly...