New PC at last now or in a couple of months though?

[AlphaLife]

Hi, just joined and wanting a bit of advice really.

Looking to build a future proof (yeah right lol) PC.

Here what ive decided on:

C2D E6600

Corsair TwinX 2GB XMS2 Dominator
DDR2 PC6400 TWIN2X2048-6400C4D

Asus P5B Deluxe P965 Socket 775

Enermax 620 watt psu

NZXT Classic Alu Tower Chassis

MSI 8800 GTX

Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 PRO

Creative SB X-Fi Xtreme Music

I think thats it, i have the rest of the parts and im thinking of upgrading my monitor to a 22\" when funds allow. Anyone do anthing different.

Also ive seen people say they are going to use faster ram with this motherboard but as far as i can tell this is the fastest you can use, am i missing something?

Mostly use PC for gaming, surfing web, photos, mp3 and a few other things. Needs to run reason and other music programs well too.

Appreciate any comments.

Thanks!

[djdaface]

Your processor had room for about a 50% overclock

if you buy faster ram that will give you a bigger band to overclock with.

I have never overclocked before recently but just ordered a core 2 duo and spent a week reading on how to overclock and its pretty simple and definetly well worth doing.

I went for the model ram just above the one you have as it seems to be dropping in price at the moment (keep your eye on it 8500C5D)

[AlphaLife]

but does the motherboard support it because as i can see it doesnt???

[Cpt_Subtext]

As far as I am aware alpha you can use a higher model of ram on the board you have stated as I asked a similar question on another forum about the Asus Striker extreme, and was told that it could take it if you overclock, I have no idea how this works but its supposed to! :S


What I would be interested to see is if you ordered the higher model of ram with that board and used Aria's custom system builder would they do the overclock to get it to work or would they just recommend what you have chosen?

[Aaron]

You dont have to overclock the motherboard to get the higher speed ram to work. The ram will just work at a lower speed. But it will give you headroom to overclock if you want to.

[Cpt_Subtext]

Huh, so get it anyway and when I come to overclock 9 months down the line, water cooling and such i'll be able to take advantage of the higher speeds! Sweet!

[mac124]

The Asus P5B has mulitpliers in the bios so you can run the memory at speeds above the cpu's fsb. Stock fsb is 266 for the C2D, and it will run your memory at 2 to 3 as this is the rated speed for it, which means the memory will run at 400 mhz (800 ddr speed) then you can up the multi again if you want to run it at ddr1000 speeds or higher if your memory can take it.