Awesome guide bill, haven't OC'd since 4 years ago when I built my last rig w/a p4 2.4c. This guide helped me get right back into things. So far I've got my e6600 stable @ 3.267 (363x9), DS3 rev1.3(stupid mistake), zalman cnps9500, OCZ 8500 5-5-5-15. Average temp. under load is 60, has jumped...
I built my new rig yesterday. I got a DS3 and e6600, I downloaded cpu-z and it says that my cpu is running at 1600 6x266, I have triple check in bios and have set the multipler to everything but 6, on the post screen it shows up as whatever multipler I have in the bios but once in windows cpu-z...
When I bought my antec 480W truepower 4 years ago or so it was more power than I needed. Now that I've decided to upgrade I'm not quite sure it will be enough after overclocking.
New rig
GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3
E6600
GeForce 8800GTS 320MB
OCZ / 2GB DDR2 PC2-8500
Using this calculator...