student pc with overclocking potential

[Shanghai_Paul]

Hi!

I want to build a system with potential in overclocking and upgrading.
It should be quiet (I'll free the HDD). As I'm no gamer and graphic chips for the future (DX10) are very expensive I think I can save the money for a graphic chip for now (use a old one). Later (maybe in 1,2years) I can upgrade to a DX10 card. Aswell I think that I can overclock the system to about 2,6GHz without a lot of work. What are your comments, do you have any suggestiones or do you see any troubles with the components working together?

Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 90
CPU: Core2Duo E6300 1,8GHz 170
RAM: G.Skill 2048MB f2-6400phu2-2gbnr 800Mhz 250
HDD: Samsung SpinPoint T133, HD400LJ (400GB) 105
graphic: old one from a friend 20
case, power, DVD & burner, other 180

total: 815 Euro


Many thanks and kind regards from Karlsruhe, Gemany!!
Paul

 

[snake_pliskin]

Well you can see my spec in my sig and I got mine to 2.8 with ease and without changing the vcore

 

[akhilles]

Looks good to me. I'd suggest other overclocking 965P boards but they're more expensive than ds3. Maybe pick up a Freezer Pro 7?

 

[Featherstone]

I agree with getting the Arctic freezer 7 pro. Great cooler and cheap! Also if you're overclocking i would go with the E6400, it overclocks higher and easier and you can run at 1:1 with that ram easily.

Well theres my opinion

 

[MrMr]

My best OC(boots to windows but can't finish a benchmark).
I see no problem with overclocability on the 965p S3\DS3
Currently E6300@3.36Ghz (480 fsb) Stable.
Featherstone is correct, E6400 is an easier overclock. But who needs easy :twisted: But I disagree that it overclocks higher.

 

[Featherstone]

I suppose I don't have any experience with OC'ing the E6300. All I know is that I set my fsb on my 6400 to 333. everything worked great, so I jumped to 400. took me 5 minutes and I am running 1:1 at 3.2Ghz with temps Idle: 33C Load 45C. Also this OC increased my 3d Mark 01 Score by over 25% (30,000 to 39,000)! WHOA! Man this makes me wanna keep pushing it, but i'm sure I'd eff something up.

 

[snake_pliskin]

Why does everyone have to put down biostar? Will someone take the time to read this then give me there opnion on biostar.

http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2871

 

[chiefgabbai]

I've been trying to find the TForce P965 Deluxe, but it doesn't seem to be available in the States. I even called Biostar-USA and whomever I talked to didn't know anything about it, like it didn't exist because it wasn't on their sales material.

 

[snake_pliskin]

http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/motherboards/roundups/2006/p965-two/biolabel.jpg

The sticker is covering up the Deluxe

A Biostar P965PT is the same thing with 2 less sata's and a slightly tuned down bios. But if you want you can flash the Bios to a Deluxe

 

[Shanghai_Paul]

Hello again!

First of all, thank you very much for your thoughts. The overclocking seems so be a piece of cake, indeed. Has anybody of you experience or knowledge if the GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 and the G.Skill 2048MB f2-6400phu2-2gbn work well together. And would you recommend a E6400? Actually I only chose the E6300 because I read that it is even easier to oc.

Kind regards
Paul

 

[akhilles]

That's VERY good, prolly the best o/c you can get out of the ds3, on air, i suppose. or any p965 board. I was only saying there are choices. I'd recommend gigabyte every time but people will think i either work for gigabyte or i'm biased.

Paul, I think the ease of overclocking depends largely on the chipset & the bios. 6300-6600 have different multipliers. 7-9. 7 x 500 fsb = 3.5ghz. IF you get that high fsb. Any standard ddr2 ram is fine. 800mhz would be better for o/cing.