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What you manage with respect to an overclock will depend heavily on the stepping/batch of CPU you get. And that is mostly down to luck, unless buying it from a source that guarantees that sort of thing. In two Q6600's, I got one awesome overclocking chip, and one complete dud. (Complete dud being relative - it'll still do 3.6GHz, but runs way hotter on a better cooler... I would swap them over, but I'm too lazy right now... both will do 3GHz on stock volts, however.)

[quote][quote][quote="It should be easy to overclock a bit even with DDR2 800. Just keeping a 1:1 ratio for CPU to RAM, you can bring the proc to 3.6 Ghz with small (if any) voltage increases. At least that's what I've been told...

sweet, my current plan is to get it to 3ghz a core then leave it. and i plan on leaving it at 3ghz unless i actually feel the processor is slow. I have a friend with a coolermaster cosmos and that zalman heatsync, that rig is loud (louder than mine is right now my heat sync makes a ton of noise) he has it clocked to 3.6ghz with the same processor that i'm getting, pretty nuts.

Um, so if you're not planning on overclocking, why get a big, unnecessary HSF?? Do you live in the tropics? ;)

Edit: Nevermind, I understand you may be looking for low noise. At least you'll have the option to overclock later, I guess.

Although i don't live in the tropics i don't have Air conditioning in my house, I'd rather be safe than sorry, my current computer has had serious heating issues in the past. My current motherboard is permanently damaged from the wrath of the x800 gto + Garry;s mod. NOw my motherboard doesn't get direct 3d support on any dx9 cards so i got forced back to putting in the geforce fx 5600 ultra. I do plan on overclocking, just not alot, i think 3ghz will be great for me, especially with my jump from single core to quad core (quadcore should be really good for sound editing) and just the basic jump from a 32 bit processor to a 64 bit processor :)

i ordered the computer today, wooo! so this is pretty much the end of the topic.

Well... it stops when you have it installed and made a photo of it. I love pics of peoples cases :D

Nah, far from the end of the topic. You need to show work-in-progress build shots, and it all neat when it's up and running. :D

it ends after you build it and we tell your its a mess, and to work on wire management...then after 4 hours of wire management you take more photos.
:)

the computer came in, it's put together, i'm sorry i don't have photos of the assembly process, but i will get pictures of the finished product when i get a chance :), then you can tell me the wires look horrid.

I think it would be cool if you were able to build/put together a computer without wires (wireless parts), after all we're heading into a wireless age, aren't we? (Wireless internet, usb, etc.)

Probably gonna come soon...

cool? sure

secure? unlikely.

Past 'security' (wep, wpa, wusb, etc) in the wireless areas tend to omit security in their design or botch it up so bad it's barely there at all.

I'll take a wired, need physical access to tap into, connection any time over any current and future wireless transport.

A cartridge type system with a physical connector on the 'parts' might work but in practice it's unlikely to be feasible, especially with form factors and standards constantly being bypassed : overlong gpus, psus, etc.

It could work with a fixed amount of parts, most likely from 1 governing manufacturer like for example HP or Dell. And it would make a sort of hybrid console/pc type part that's likely to be a novelty but never really catch on at the pace hardware in the pc world changes. Just look at laptops. Except the ram and hdd few parts are cross notebook interchangeable.