want to put 2600+ on steroids

MrPanther0

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hey everyone... ok I need some expert OC'ing advice on this one; I want to overclock the hell out of my athlon 2600 +. Its the second rev with the 166 FSB. While had I known what I know now back when I bought my CPU
I would have gotten the barton core 2500+ with its 512k cache but its too late now I guess. I have 2 options ofcourse: 1. a tradition heat sink/ fan
2. water cooling kit

I found this site with some CPU coolers :
http://www.xoxide.com/amdsoc462coo.html
which would you guys pick or do yall have another site?
if I am going heatsink/fan then i want to stay under 50$
and the same site but with their water coolers :
http://www.xoxide.com/watcoolcas.html
also should i just get DDR 400 even though DDR 333 would operate syncronously with my FSB?
i dont know if the sites' prices are good because i havent found another site with such an extensive selection of cooling parts... 'preciate the help
 

MrPanther0

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I'm getting the ram along with the cooler... I'm spending roughly 300 on RAM, I gave the limit of 50$ because if i were to stay with conventional cooling I dont want to pay that much because the cooling wont be that great.. yeah im crazy enough to shoot some water in my case ; )
so what heatsink would you guys choose out of that site i posted?
 

DOHCrazy

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Why does he need 3700 to overclock a 2600? its not an intel chip.

Or am i jsut proving my ignorance in this post?

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