bgshiznit Posted January 5, 2006 Posted January 5, 2006 Looking at building a new rig and overclocking it. Just want some input on my hardware choices. Heres the selections so far: Opteron 165 DFI LANPARTY nF4 SLI-DR OCZ Gold Edition 2GB (2 x 1GB) Antec TruePower 2.0 TP2-550 Is this hardware gonna get me up to 2.4Ghz with luck on my side? Any suggestions? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audiocracy Posted January 5, 2006 Posted January 5, 2006 Welcome to DFI-Street! Your hardware looks fine. I might recommend another power supply though. I think people have been complaining about Antec's quality as of late although you may want to do a search around the forums about this. I'd recommend sticking with the "A" list power supplies listed in the NF4 Recommended Power Supplies guide. A factor you might consider is if you will want to run SLI on your board. If so, go for the SLI/Expert power supplies. If not, the non-SLI power supplies will suffice. I'm pretty confident that you will be able to get at least a 2.4ghz overclock with this current setup but ymmv depending on stepping. Stock cooling should be alright but if I were you, I'd upgrade the CPU cooler... no sense putting excess heat on the processor. Also, Arctic Silver 5 or Ceramique thermal compund instead of the thermal pad thing they have on the stock heatsink if that's what you're gonna use. One of the best $5 investments in your new rig. Good luck with your build. Here are some good guides to get you started once you receive all of your hardware. Initial Build Ultra-D step-by step build <== Pretty much the same for SLI-DR. Just don't enable Cool and Quiet since you're overclocking. THE Definitive Overclocking Guide Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgshiznit Posted January 6, 2006 Posted January 6, 2006 The power supply I selected is on the "highly recomended" list. I will look into others though. I think I will be going with the DFI UT SLI-DR Expert now. I will of course be using AS5 and probably going to water cooling in the very near future. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgshiznit Posted January 7, 2006 Posted January 7, 2006 I think now I will be using the Expert board and the OCZ powerstream 520. I have had many recomendations for both of these. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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