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Hi guys, considering im on a budget this is what Ive ordered and has been delivered, im gona start building this on Friday... Now my question is.. 1stly, is this decent enough to overclock to 3ghz at least running stable and maybe even within stock voltage levels...2nd is this a good system and will vista be decent? I went for 64bit for future proofing reasons.. Thanks in advance ! btw..just a quick side note, the people at whirlpool forums have been excellent help so far...

Intel Core 2 Duo E6300, Socket 775, 1.86 GHz, 1066MHz FSB, Allendale Core, 2MB Cache, Retail

2Gb (2X1Gb) Corsair TwinX XMS2, DDR2 PC5400 (667), 240 Pin, Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 4-4-4-12

Gigabyte GA 965P-S3 iP965, S775, PCI-E (x16), DDR2 533/667/800, SATA II, SATA RAID, ATX

Western Digital Caviar SE16 Hard Disk Drive 250GB Serial ATA II 7200rpm 16MB

Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 PRO

Powercolor Radeon X1950 PRO Extreme 256MB PCI-E DDR3 Dual DVI/VIVO

Antec P150 case 430w PSU HE

Vista Home Premium 64-bit OEM

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I dont think you'll be able to hit 3ghz with the ACF7 and that ram, i'd say 2.7-2.8ghz is what you should expect. Its a decent build, i would have gone with a different hsf, and if i had to get vista i would get the ultimate edition.

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To add to this. The PSU that comes with the Antec P150 Case is crap. You need a another PSU. PSU is heart and soul of the system. Spend wisely on it. Here is one that will suite you nicly.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6817104954

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well my antec p150 right now is running an a8v deluxe...4 fans or so.. ati radeon 9800xt, 2 hard drives , dvdrw, dvd rom drive and a remote control pc start box, and 1gb ram..and an amd 3500+ with no problems.. a core duo will require less power and the x1950pro will run with a separate power adaptor...

Also this is the guide i followed on o/cin an e6300..my specs r the same.. pretty much

http://forumz.tomshardware.com/har [...] 05223.html

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So you would risk frying brand new system beacuse of a crapy PSU. Trust me 60 buck spent on a different PSU is worth every penny.

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I agree.

Reply to apt403

roofy, The guys are right a crappy power supply can take out most if not all of your system I lost a thunderbird to a failed PSU. It takes about 3 seconds to smell the smoke from a burning t-bird.

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Couple of years back i had a cheap quality (turbolink) PSU fry my MB thanks god it didnt fry anything else. PSU is most overlooked component in your system.

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