E6400 overclocking

Ewwwww... I don't like the memory... that might limit you some...

Also, its going to depend on case cooling, and just how lucky you are, but I can say you'll probably be able to reach to prolly 2.5... more if you use better memory and have a decent amount of case airflow. The mobo is decent, that should work fine.

Your going to need at least some high end ddr2-667 ram that you can overclock to 400mhz, or ddr2-800. I got my 6400 running @ 415mhz x7 with minor over-voltage on the cpu and not touching the ram, I know it will go higher, I am being very conservative.
The best you might get with cheap ram is 2664mhz. Remember, in most cases concerning memory, you get what you pay for.

Afternoon Labbbby. I've been thinking. And I'm trying to figure out when someone would get good performance with DDR2 1066

Man... 300 for a case... I can't do that, the nine-hundred seems to work just fine. After I put in my Delta 190 CFM fan, I'll have a whopping 350 CFM of exhaust (and 150 CFM of intake... I really need to figure something out...)

$300 on a case? I don't even spend that much on cases.

LOL, when our resident millionare doesn't spend that much on a case, that tells you something

Nah, it is a real nice case, I'd pick it up in a jiffy if it dropped in price (dropped quite a bit =P) But post pics once you're done. We can then all go ooh and aah...

Meh... console review... too lazy to even read through it, since there's way too many of them and I'm not a console gamer... sorry Ninja, but nice picks...

Samurai Champloo soundtrack... trying to think if I have it... I know I have roughly 100 gig's of anime soundtracks, so I should have it... meh, didn't like the series all that much, so no biggie.

YAY! I out spent Ninja

*Runs around throwing 20$ bills*

W0000t.

Yeah that crap is way to expensive, it will bring my overall system at 3000$Can which is not that bad considering I got 1K from my old one, I will get a 22" wide screen that should fit pretty well with my current 19" 4:3.

But heck I intend to keep that case forever =)

The answer to your question is contained in this article:

http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/10/10/cheap_thrills/

.... Meh.

Yeah, good ol Black Friday deal. Best Buy is selling it for 200. Circuit City is selling Samsung 225BW for 280, and CompUSA is selling the same Samsung for 300...

I like Samsung more than Westinghouse, but a 100 dollar difference is hard to beat...

It's easy to outspend Ninja. If your name begins with Bill and ends with Gates...

ehh. cause I'm too tired to give you a meh. The idiots at work somehow managed to shut down the file server. Seriously, whats with kids these days? If its not trying to get to porn and MySpace thru proxy or Google porn (kind of easy to stop) its breaking different pieces of equipment and pissing the absolute hell out of me.

I think they do this because they know I'm not much older than they are. The devious little bastards. There goes another one trying to access porn again. You know what, I'm just going to shut down Internet access to the labs.

Pretty much the best ram for the $$$ was the limited 10yr anniversary edition crucial ram. $229.00 for 2 gigs and since it was limited I went ahead and bought 4gigs because it would suck later down the road if I had to add more memory and could not get those.

People have hit some crazy over clocks with tight timings on this ram.

Stock its ddr2 667mhz 3 3 3 12

I have it running at ddr 972mhz with 4 4 4 5 timings rock stable! I have actually gotten it up to 1100mhz under these same timings just too see how far I could push it.

System specs:

E6400@3.4ghz 1.325vcore P95stable 14+hrs
Crucial ddr2 ram@972mhz 4 4 4 5
Soundblaster Audigy 4
BFG 8800GTX




Just for fun a few pics of Oblivion running on my system

1280X1024 8XAA 16AF+HDR and driver settings on High Quality.

Yeah that'll teach them!

Whats the school policy on such thing? Now that I'm in college nobody dares to do crap because there is much tighter monitoring and people get expelled pretty easily for that kind of crap

The school policy is that there is technically no actual blocking as in we don't have blocking software, because those are far to discriminating and end up cause my department more trouble than good. Since the school is part of the college, they aren't allowed to do such either. But since they do have there own labs set aside for the students, we can practice selective blocking there. Convoluted yes, but its better than the alternative.

http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/

Black friday deals my man, I'm gonna end up staying the night outside one of these stores (Either Circuit City, CompUSA, Best Buy or Fry's). Fry's by far has the best deals, but it's not out yet, comes out on Thanksgiving day. If you don't have a Fry's though... kinda SOL...

If ya'll don't do Black Friday up in Canada, just jump the border and camp down here. Best deals of the year.

I would work at our ITS, but the pay is shiat, and I don't want to deal with dumbass buisness majors every day =P

Not to mention 70k+ people... calling you for help... just shoot me...

You weird Canuks...

Yeah, Black Friday is usually the day with the best deals all year. But you have to arrive about 4-5 hrs before store opening to get in on most of the deals. Usually not a problem for me though, got quite a few friends going.