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Culley

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Hello my name is Sam Culley from the UK,

Ive decided to upgrade to Core 2 Duo, so basically i baught a E6320 which is like 1.83ghz and i want to overclock it. I basically want to know whats the best motherboard and ram to overclock, please suggestion would be really appreicated.

Sam Culley
 
do you have a budget? what video cards will you be running? (do you need SLI or Crossfire?) do you want 1gb of ram or two? will you be using stock cooling, aftermarket heatsink or water cooling? how much of an overclock are you looking for?
 
budget is not a issue, i would like Crossfire(ATi all the way baby) , I want a new HSF no water cooling in this baby, and i dont know how much of a overclock i am looking for maybe just to 2.4ghz and for the RAM i was thinking 2gb corsair dominator.

thanks for the help much appriciated.

Sam Culley
 
i would probably go with an asus P5B deluxe, or the gigabyte DS3, the intel badaxe2 is also a nice board, fairly expensive though- almost twice as much, both of these support crossfire. boards with the 680i chipset are also popular i think all those are for SLI though, i dont have much experience with them.

as for ram- if you want to spend the money on corsair dominator, its great ram. but its way overpriced for what it is. you can get some nice RAM from g.skil or geil for about a third of the price. lots of people also use buffalo firestix with good results.

im not up on todays heatsinks so il let someone else comment on that, im a water cooling guy heh. with a nice heatsink tho you should be able to hit around 3ghz, maybe higher if you get a good chip.
 
yeh i am deffiently thinking on going with the p5b-deluxe, i dont really need crossfire as i dont play games that much but would be nice to have a 4 monitor setup :D . I think for the heatsink i will go with a zalman or maybe a freezer pro 7.
Basically my real concern is that do i need to look out for certain things when buying my RAM when im overclocking i am really a n00b to OC'ing.

Thanks for the suggestion ghost.

Sam Culley
 
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