I've just bought an Opteron 165 ( $270 on monarch with a -$60 coupon), and plan to overclock it. I'm a little rusty because I've not overclocked since the Duron days.
I'm going to use an ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 ( $70 ) because I don't have the extra cash for a new vid card upgrade. I've also heard that the Asus A8V's ($70) are ok for overclocking too.
I'm thinking about getting 1gb - 2gb of overclocking ram: 1gb Crucial Ballistix pc4000 ($130) , perhaps even meddling into 2gb OCZ gold GX ( $160 ), 1gb Patriot XBLK ( $120 ), 2gb Mushkin Xtreme $165 , 2gb Corsair XMS ( $190 ), or even 2gb Gskill ram ( $160 ). I pretty much have a vague idea for parts decided, but one crucial part still astounds me; the PSU.
After frying a 2200 barton and abit kt7, I replaced my old 350watt codegen, with a MGE 400 watt PSu with rails that fluctuate like crazy (that's what i get for $25 el cheapo shiny PSU). To not damage my parts, as my old codegen did, I was wondering what reliable PSU's are out there today. I'm floating in the 500-600 watt range, modular cabling, and dual +12 rails (just in case) with nothing over $110. I've been looking at the Enermax Liberty 500watt ( $100 ), OCZ modstream 520watt ( $80 ), and some other brands such as Xclio ( $100 ), and Kingwin ( $100 ). I was looking into getting an Antec Neo ( $100 ), but the +5 volt rail has weak amps + it doesn't support the Asus A8N32-SLi ( $150 )a possible future upgrade.
I'm on a pretty low budget right now, will probably never run SLI/Xfire(planning to get a 7900gt), using my Audigy forever, and only have my processor upgrade set. So any of the other parts may change. I'd like to ask for some reccomendations on memory, and a powersupply.
-ps. future planned upgrades within the year 7900gt ( $345 ), Acrylic case ( $70 ) or Tower ( $110 ), Noctua/Coolink HS ( $50 ), A8N ( $95 ) or DFI UT NF4 ($120), G5 mouse ( $35 ), DVDBurner, dreamin of a Samsung BlueRay Player $1000 , 37" 1080p LCD monitor/TV probably Sceptre Naga ($1665) . ;p i'm crazy like that cause i like the best things for the cheapest i can get them, and i will look for a great buy 'til my eyes are bloodshot, or 'til my friends go back to sit in my '87 corolla.
-pss and no i dont want to wait for the AM2's since the performance gain is not enough to justify me waiting, i'm super impatient, and i'm sure the prices will be sky high.
edit:
i was pointed towards winbond BH-5 ram, and have heard good things about TCCD also. now, I was wondering if anyone knows of a place I can actually buy them from.
Props to W1zzard at tech power up forums for his more compreshensive list.
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