Overclocking and Rate this AMD 64 X2 3800+ and 7800GT

Sup guys, first timer here! Anyway my question here is how well will my computer overclock and how good is this setup for playing Battlefield 2 and WOW? Heres the specs.

CPU: (939-pin) AMD Athlon™64 X2 3800+ Dual-Core CPU w/ HyperTransport Technology

MOBO: (Sckt939)MSI K8N NEO4-F nForce4 Chipset SATA Raid PCI-E w/GbLAN,USB2.0,&7.1Audio

Power Supply: NZXT PF-500 500Watt Power Supply

Memory: 1024 MB (512MBx2) PC3200 400MHz Dual Channel DDR MEMORY (Corsair XMS PRO High Performance Memory w/ Heat Spreader & LED Lights)

Video Card: EVGA NVIDIA Geforce 7800 GT 256MB 16X PCI Express

Hard Drive: Western Digital Raptor 74GB 10,000RPM 8MB Cache

Sound Card: Creative Labs SB Audigy SE

Note: It's still on the way being shipped to me so if anyone have this setup and it doesn't perform well ;please let me know, this computer was ordered from Cyberpowerinc.com for about 1350$

Can this setup be overclocked easy, if not can you guys point out the flaws to this system?

I hear that BF2 plays better with 2GB RAM. At your next opportunity I would get 2 1GB sticks and add em in.

The raptors are great, so long as you are only using the outside of the disk. Once they get more than 1/4 full, they slow right down. Get a second disk for storage.

It looks like techreport got one to 250mhz, ymmv.

I have the same processor and it games fine. I play mostly BF2 and it runs like a dream (although I did come from an old AMD XP cpu so I could have a clouded judgement).

I couldn't comment on wow though but some games I play, I've had to change the affinity in task manager to only use one core only for the game to run seamlessly.

Let us know what you think of the performance when you have got it setup.

"whats my overclocking potential with my MSI K8N NEO4-F motherboard,"

mY OWN nEO-4 does not appear to like any FSB above 215 MHz, regardless of HTT multiple, lower cpu multiplier, mem ratio, core voltage, NF4 voltage, or latest MSI BIOS; inevitably, I'd suffer a hard freeze or failure to post. Perhaps yours will do better, as mine is around 6-8 months old...

(A friend has his x2-3800 running at 2.5G, but OC mileage will vary, of course; they are not quite like Celeron 300a models...)

But as the video card is 95% of the gaming experience anyway as long as you have "enough" processor, and you do, it is of little consequence.

If you're OCing the 3800 then fine though at stock speed it will lag it some games.
I'd rather go for a 4400. But that's me.
Raptors aren't worth it. Sry to say this. You'd be better with 2 HDD 7200 in RAID setup.

wrong there... THG did a article on that, showed that the Raptor 10K RPM is faster than 2 7200RPM in RAID.

Also, I'd recommend getting a DFI mobo... everywhere I go I hear rave reviews about how well they overclock. Opty would probably also be a better choice, but 3800 isn't bad.