Finally ordered my rig, Overclocking hints?!

[brentonhill]

Hey Guys,

After about a month of waiting for intel and pondering on parts I have finally ordered the spec below, cant wait for it to turn up on tuesday!:

Core 2 E6600
Asus P5N-E SLI NF650i SLi
520W Corsair HX Series Modular PSU
2GB (2x1gb) Corsair Twinx XMS2, DDR2 PC-6400
MSI 8600GT, PCI-E (x16), Mem 1400 MHz, GDDR2, GPU 540 MHz, 2x Dual Link DVI-I/HDTV

What do you guys think? Will I need any extra cooling to overclock.

Any tips for this set up?

Brent

[Flewis]

Are you planning to use the stock cooler?

You wont get that far if you are before temps start getting a bit high. Might need to purchase an extra cooler.

[brentonhill]

Ahh ok I see. Any suggestions which are completely quiet and will get the job done?

[redddraggon]

arctic cooling freezer 7 for LGA775

[vicar]

Try Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro

[Flewis]

The arctic freezer 7 pro is a steal at £12 on scan. For a bit more the Zalman 9700LED is under £30 on ebuyer once google checkout is used.

You might also want to consider better thermal paste such as arctic silver 5 which will knock a few degrees off too.

[Harkin]

Ahh ok I see. Any suggestions which are completely quiet and will get the job done?

The Thermalright Ultra-120 Exreme can be used fanless but if u want to Overclock then u wud need to attach a 120mm fan, u cud get a decent fan like a Yate Loon and it wud be pretty quiet. Thers also the Artic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro I think its called which is cheap but still performs really well.

[Harkin]

lol damn I was so slow by the time I finished the Artic was mentioned loads of times, seems ppl like em though, for the price u cant go wrong