want to put 2600+ on steroids

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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

Reply to MrPanther0

Possibly it would be easier to do if you have DDR 3700 or 4200 for ram...

Reply to Unseen

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?

Reply to MrPanther0

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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