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dipstick · Rated PG

Hi there,

It's been a while for me and PCs. I've not had a decent rig for 8 years or so, and thus it's a long time since I messed about with overclocking and such - work, family and financial reasons. I need a new PC though, and this time I'm treating myself. To bear in mind for any advice, I want a system that'll do for gaming, and that can be overclocked for my own interests.

I've been nosing around the OC forum for a few days having been looking for guidelines as to what hardware I should be looking at for my new PC. I'm currently at,

Intel Q6600
-cooled with a Zalman CNPS9700NT
Asus P5K Deluxe
Antec P190
XFX 8800GTX 768mb
Creative X-Fi Xtreme Gamer sound card
WD Raptor 150Gb w/ Barracuda 250Gb as backup drive
Vista Home Premium x64
(DVD drives, peripherals, monitor etc as well)

First off, RAM. I've not been able to find that much about what's good and what's not, and have been thinking about 2Gb of Corsair XMS2 Dominator 1066 RAM. Any reasons I shouldn't go for this? Is there any RAM I should look at instead?

Secondly, is there anything I should add to or replace in that list so far? My budget won't stretch much further, but if there's something that'll considerably better the system then I'll see what I can do about fitting it in.

Thanks in advance for any help and advice Smile

-dip.