...have a JAN Rectron pricelist? Great! Please help me! :D

[Edwe]

You obviously do not overclock

Your power supply at 80% efficiency suddenly only runs at only 360W (lucky if Aopen comes close to 80% for long) any slight change in power and your system is fried.

Aopen only says "High efficiency" where all decent international brands give a percentage even if only 80%, so i am being kind giving Aopen 80%

You're absolutely right - I don't overclock, but let's say I wanted to. I'm getting a C2D E6300 - can I overclock it to 2.1GHz without frying anything if I have a 500W power supply and the following setup?

Intel "Lemont" P965 Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 1.86GHz
2x 1024MB PC-667 DDR2
Asus GeForce 7600GT 256MB PCI-E
Seagate 250GB 7200RPM SATA-2 3Gb/s 16MB cache
Asus TV/FM Tuner W/RC
Creative X-Fi Extrememusic
Sharp CD-BK3100 MCS with 2000W PMPO (actively powered amplifier and speakers)
AOpen Black/Silver case
AOpen 500W power supply
2x12V case fans
LG 19" TFT Monitor LG1952T
Genius PS2 keyboard and optical scroll mouse

 

[nihilist]

I'm pretty sure you'd be able to, though you must make sure that it's stable first with rigorous testing.

OCing your CPU won't put that much extra demand on your PSU, at this stage it's probably more to do with how stable the current is than how much juice you've got less to suck.

You're absolutely right - I don't overclock, but let's say I wanted to. I'm getting a C2D E6300 - can I overclock it to 2.1GHz without frying anything if I have a 500W power supply and the following setup?

 

[Edwe]

OCing your CPU won't put that much extra demand on your PSU, at this stage it's probably more to do with how stable the current is than how much juice you've got less to suck.

The way our country's powerplants are performing, stability is out of the question, even with a good PSU, unfortunately. Thanks for the advice.

 

[nihilist]

HAHA Eskom killed the videogame star.

But regardless, those specs are nice, you're gonna have lots of fun with that rig!

The way our country's powerplants are performing, stability is out of the question, even with a good PSU, unfortunately. Thanks for the advice.

 

[QX6700RULZ]

Not to sure how overclockable the Lemont is, Intel boards as a rule are not very overclocking friendly (apart from the 2 badaxes).
Power supply should be fine

 

[nihilist]

How are you enjoying the quadcore?

In a year or so I'll probably go quad and give my fiance my E6600 and build her a rig with that

Not to sure how overclockable the Lemont is, Intel boards as a rule are not very overclocking friendly (apart from the 2 badaxes).
Power supply should be fine

 

[QX6700RULZ]

How are you enjoying the quadcore?

In a year or so I'll probably go quad and give my fiance my E6600 and build her a rig with that

I h8 it, do mainly 3d studio max rendering with it and i am lucky if it renders a frame 3 seconds faster than my [email protected] used to do, also multi tasking is very slow, sometimes the system hangs for ages when switching between programs.

It is easy to overclock, presently running at 3.2 with no changes to bios apart from the multiplier 12*266 all voltages stock. Temps 42 idle and all cores between 51 and 61 full load (basic water cooling being used).

Just wish i knew how they benched it for Max, it should be way faster than it is for rendering (should have saved the 9k and bought some more E6600's or a better gpu)

Overall it is all hype nothing special (thinking of going back to single core for a gaming rig)