Please rate this setup before I purchase

Scythe Ninja Plus REV.B is an awesome cooler. Got one for my E6400. It will fit into that case. I have a mid tower that is probably the same size if not smaller so you should be good to go with that. I also had a fan on mine that fit fine into the case, though when I was doing usm **** with my pc I forgot to put the fan on. Still works good though. If you are going to OC then yes, deff get it. No question. Stock intel hsf arent too great for high OCing. The processor is fine. It doesnt matter which one you get. All processors have a different max OC because it depends how 'good' the chip is. Either one will do. For a PSU, I and probably everyone else willl tell you not to skimp on the PSU. A **** PSU can cause major problems like stability issues. I would reccomend a better PSU from Corsair or pcpower&cooling or w/e the **** its name is. So yea, idk how good that PSU is because the PSUs that come with cases are most of the time real ****. Everything else looks good to me unless I missed something. Good luck

http://www.ncix.com/products/index [...] re=CORSAIR - PSU

And dont forget a CD/DVD drive if you need one. And an OS. nd when you get everything together and running dont forget to change tthe fan speed on the 9900GT. It comes at like around 30% or sumtin. Increase it

Thank you for the replies!

I've read a few reviews on the Antec HE Neo 550W PSU that came with the case, and they are all positive ones. Is the one you recommended much better than the Antec?

If so, I can go with the Antec Solo case with no PSU and then get the Corsair for $200, $50 more than the one I had in mind.

And E2180 it is then

Could you guys comment on the motherboard, memory, and video card? I'm not sure if the ones I picked are good or not?

Thanks again!

Here are the 3.2Ghz results:
http://www.mediafire.com/imageview [...] zb&thumb=4
http://www.mediafire.com/imageview [...] yt&thumb=4
http://www.mediafire.com/imageview [...] vw&thumb=4
http://www.mediafire.com/imageview [...] s3&thumb=4
http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=282308

Don't change a thing. Love the case. The Antec psu is fine.

Yes, the scythe ninja will fit in the case. My last solo case had a ninja with a fan. It was a close fit, but no problem. One piece of advice: Put in the memory before mounting the fan for the heat sink, the sink may jut out over the top of the first stick. In fact, I would mount the ninja and fan outside of the case to be certain that the push pins are all fully through the mobo.

Well I currently have DDR2 667, on this, but I recommend DDR2 800 or better. I had to reduce the RAM SPD to 2 so that I can OC the CPU.

I couldn't find any E2200 for sale. So I settled for E2180.

One thing I changed is the memory, I went with Crucial Ballistix PC2-8500 DDR2 2GB 2X1GB DDR2-1066 CL5-5-5-15

http://www.ncix.com/products/index [...] omoid=1061

It's on sale for $95 and no MIR crap. Is this a better memory than DDR2 800 with 4-4-4-12 timings for my OC setup?

Oh yeah, and going with DDR2-since the 1066 doesn't offer much better performance, and the Crucial Ballistix will OC fine, plus with tighter timings, you will end up with better performance (I.E. when over clocking the DDR2-800, you might have to raise the CL to 5. With the 1066 CL5, you might have to raise it to CL6...) Make sense?

Get the 800 ram. Some boards dont like the 1066 very well. For a 3.0 with the e2180 your FSB will need to be 300, your ram will be 600 at 1:1. It should hit 3.0 on stock HS. My e2180 is 3.34 on stock HS.

http://i102.photobucket.com/albums [...] 9/woot.jpg

This chip benches better then a x6800 and the 3.0 penryn 6mb cache. I can email a better pic if you like.
http://i102.photobucket.com/albums [...] MDpown.jpg

I can email you the pics at better resolution photobucket sucks. Temp idle is 42c load is 59c

Use mediafire.