About to Order my "Overclocking Machine" Critique Please

[elekid]

I want to reach over 3 ghz with this, what do you guys think?

315.00 VGA EVGA|GF4 TI4600 128M TV/RETAIL BOX
272.00 Intel Pentium 4 / 2.26GHz Northwood 512K Socket 478 Processor 533 OEM
166.00 Samsung 256MB PC800 NonECC RAMBUS RDRAM RIMM x2 (512) (oc to 1066)
179.00 Koolance Mid tower PC2-C Liquid Cooling case Retail
116.00 ABIT TH7II INTEL 850 ATX MOTHERBOARD - RTL (2.2v, locked PCI/AGP) (make as 533)
107.00 MAXTOR 80GB 7200RPM OEM
55.00 Koolance, CPU-200G Cooler for Water cooled kits Retail
59.00 Lite On 32x12x40 CDRW Model LTR-32123S - RETAIL
36.00 Logitech Z-340 3 Piece Speaker System RTL
32.00 CREATIVE LABS SOUND BLASTER LIVE! 5.1 - OEM
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09.00 Dlink DFE-530TX+ Fast Ethernet Adapter 10BT/100BTX - OEM
07.00 SAMSUNG 1.44MB FLOPPY DRIVE Model# SFD321B/LEB - OEM
03.00 14 Ft. Cat. 5e Patch Cable, 350 Mhz - OEM
08.00 Samsung 104 Keys SDK3500 PS2 Keyboard - RETAIL
39.00 Heroichi Electronic corp. Power Supply 350watt
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Subtotal » 1404.00

[Smizack]

Originally posted by elekid
I want to reach over 3 ghz with this, what do you guys think?

315.00 VGA EVGA|GF4 TI4600 128M TV/RETAIL BOX
272.00 Intel Pentium 4 / 2.26GHz Northwood 512K Socket 478 Processor 533 OEM
166.00 Samsung 256MB PC800 NonECC RAMBUS RDRAM RIMM x2 (512) (oc to 1066)
179.00 Koolance Mid tower PC2-C Liquid Cooling case Retail
116.00 ABIT TH7II INTEL 850 ATX MOTHERBOARD - RTL (2.2v, locked PCI/AGP) (make as 533)
107.00 MAXTOR 80GB 7200RPM OEM
55.00 Koolance, CPU-200G Cooler for Water cooled kits Retail
59.00 Lite On 32x12x40 CDRW Model LTR-32123S - RETAIL
36.00 Logitech Z-340 3 Piece Speaker System RTL
32.00 CREATIVE LABS SOUND BLASTER LIVE! 5.1 - OEM
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
09.00 Dlink DFE-530TX+ Fast Ethernet Adapter 10BT/100BTX - OEM
07.00 SAMSUNG 1.44MB FLOPPY DRIVE Model# SFD321B/LEB - OEM
03.00 14 Ft. Cat. 5e Patch Cable, 350 Mhz - OEM
08.00 Samsung 104 Keys SDK3500 PS2 Keyboard - RETAIL
39.00 Heroichi Electronic corp. Power Supply 350watt
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Subtotal » 1404.00

Personally, I'd have gone AMD and DDR ram. But putting that aside, it looks pretty good. Mabey Klipsch 5.1's though. And you may want to get a bigger psu.

[elekid]

Klipsch's LOL. I guess I give you the impression that I'm very wealthy! Im not...and I can not afford Klipsch's, not even 2.1s...lol. Anyway, i am not much of an audiophile anyway and ill look into the PS Situation, anyone wanna reccomend one to me?

[Smizack]

Enermax.

[elekid]

Originally posted by Smizack
Enermax.

way to loud

[Smizack]

Originally posted by elekid


way to loud

Water kewl it then!;)

Ok, how aboot Deer?

[Staz]

I'm not an Intel kind of guy so I may not be right. But shouldn't you buy a 100MHz FSB CPU if you want to overclock an Intell cpu?

Also won't you get a higher overclock with PC2700 DDR ram instead of RDRAM?

[elekid]

RDRAM Has Better Performance, Equal or better overclocking, scores better on benchmarks. Well a 2.26B I have heard from various people get 3 ghz with some air cooling, even 2800, 3100, etc. I say with liquid cooling and a fantastic mobo, that locks the pci/agp bus, I can get much higher. A 533 Bus Works Wonders and Maximizes the performance of PC1066 RDRAM (Which I Am overclocking, hope I clear things up!

[JudgeDredd]

Originally posted by Staz
I'm not an Intel kind of guy so I may not be right. But shouldn't you buy a 100MHz FSB CPU if you want to overclock an Intell cpu?

Also won't you get a higher overclock with PC2700 DDR ram instead of RDRAM?

Well, you're right and your wrong in a couple of ways about the FSB. In any normal board you want a higher multiplier since most boards have limited FSB. But since the TH7 can have it's fSB set up to 255 MHz (I think), it's actually better that he got the 533 FSB P4.

Here's why:

The one he is getting has a multiplier of 17, the regular 2.2s have a multiplier of 22. If he wants 3 GHz, look what happens:

17 * 176.5 MHz ~ 3000 MHz

22 * 137 MHZ ~ 3000 MHz

Same speed, top one has more FSB. :)

So, the conclusion comes down to: If you have high FSB capability, get the new P4s, if you are limited, get the regular Northwoods.

[elekid]

How Are RaidMax PSUs?

[WyrmMaster]

Nice choice on the video card. I have an eVGA TI4400 and love it. Cheapest thing around, and they ahave good support, it does VIVO, and it overclocks to 300/700 WITHOUT ram sinks.

Looks like a good system, although personally i would like to geta slightly cheaper CPU (personally i would go AMD), but im not going to talk you out of it) and go for 512mb RAM. But if you really want the 3000mhz... You could also swap the TI4600 for a TI4400 and get the extra 256mb ram with that.

Havent heard of raidmax, but if you dont want enermax antec makes a good PSU.

[elekid]

wyrmaster, there is 512, at the end it says 2x (256x2=512)