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Okay, why the heck would you overclock it? With the prices as they are now, overclocking is just so you can say that your system is overclocked. "Yep, she's overclocked" (said with a slight hillbilly accent as you lean back in your chair, arms folded at the chest). That's about all the advantage you get.
If you want to seriously overclock, you need to shell out hundreds of bucks on water cooling systems, etc., when you could just pay a quarter of that money toward a faster processer. In this case, theprophet, why not just use the HS/Fan combo money toward a faster retail processor?
While I would reccommend the 8MB hard drive cache, unless you're writing huge volumes of data to the disk at one time (i.e. video editing), you're performance improvement is not that great. You're better off getting a 150 MB/s HDD, like SerialATA, if you want a good performance boost.
Now, about the motherboard. If you want to see RDRAM performance, I would take a look at a motherboard equipped with the Intel E7205 chipset, such as the ASUS P4G8X. It has a feature that can double the DDR-RAM performance so you get a FSB speed of up to 533MHz. This is a huge performance boost, because the processor is made to operate at 533MHz. While it has that speed between the Processor and the (Northbridge chip?), quicker access to the RAM allows for faster cache reads and writes. Other than that, you have selected a pretty nice motherboard.
If you want to seriously overclock, you need to shell out hundreds of bucks on water cooling systems, etc., when you could just pay a quarter of that money toward a faster processer. In this case, theprophet, why not just use the HS/Fan combo money toward a faster retail processor?
While I would reccommend the 8MB hard drive cache, unless you're writing huge volumes of data to the disk at one time (i.e. video editing), you're performance improvement is not that great. You're better off getting a 150 MB/s HDD, like SerialATA, if you want a good performance boost.
Now, about the motherboard. If you want to see RDRAM performance, I would take a look at a motherboard equipped with the Intel E7205 chipset, such as the ASUS P4G8X. It has a feature that can double the DDR-RAM performance so you get a FSB speed of up to 533MHz. This is a huge performance boost, because the processor is made to operate at 533MHz. While it has that speed between the Processor and the (Northbridge chip?), quicker access to the RAM allows for faster cache reads and writes. Other than that, you have selected a pretty nice motherboard.
