They are about £25 IIRC but mine cost me £13 ;-)

*** Update ***

Back at 3.15ghx w/840 ram 1400 fsb since it was not 24 hour stable :-(

By 24 hour stable what do you mean? You don't actually need to run 24 hour tests. Find the max overclock you can get 1 hour stable, and just shave off 50 Mhz from that (it really is a small amount)

I recommend 2 instances of SP2004, 1 with "CPU only" test and the other with "test all". While that is running, open up a windowed program that will stress the graphics card (perhaps a windowed game in 'AFK' single player) and let it put the video card through a bit of work so that the total system heat output is at it's maximum. If you have been overclocking the CPU irrespective of the GPU's heat output, you're in for a surprise.

1 Hour of that can bring a bad overclock to its knees.

Very nice, very nice. Solid system. Myself, I just upgraded my graphics card, and now I'm really pulling the pretty out of my computer. I'll be getting a quad-core for it in a few months, once Spore and a few other must have games are out.

*cough*

Q6600, ATi 3870, 4GB RAM, 1TB HDD....

*shuffles off*

What I mean is I could force it to crash and it would only run orthos for 1-1.5 hours... with the 3.15 it runs for as long as I want. And yet I have taken the GPU output into respect with this as you'll see from the temps I gave you including "heavy gaming"

Very nice, very nice. Solid system. Myself, I just upgraded my graphics card, and now I'm really pulling the pretty out of my computer. I'll be getting a quad-core for it in a few months, once Spore and a few other must have games are out.

Thanks, yes I will upgrade, but atm at least I think this'll do me... When I can sell another P4 system I have (with the 8600 thats in this) I will be getting an 8800 or 4850 to put in... That should nearly double my framerates hopefully and then i'll have to wait until cpu prices come down as a Q6600 would have cost like 2/3rds of my budget lol...

lol, Dude I know u have a gd system (but this was a LOT cheaper )

I DID buy 4gb ram but due to the damn P31 chipset I cant run 4 DOUBLESIDED dimms so had to sell the other 2 to my granddad, and that wont be a big upgrade to have to do when I sell the ones that are in there...

As said, I couldent afford a Q6600 Atm...

I WILL be upgrading the GFX Soon when I get a buyer for this other system I have and my existing gfx crd.

And finally... I have 1.75TB in this so ner ner nerner ner!

HDD space is overrated. So is speed, for that matter.

The GPU is the CPU of tomorrow. Hell I'm considering my next build to have watercooling only for the GPU.

grr. 1.75TB?

I have 1.15, the 150gb coming from my c:\ drive; a 150gb Raptor drive @ 10k RPM.

and you know what most of that power gets used for? bloody folding@home.

I think that you must have done better than me.  I just bought a new Dell - (arrived today) and I feel woefully inadequate now. I thought memoery was important! I would never be able to do what you did.

Q6600 core 2 Quad ...yadda yadda
4 GB memory
640GB hard drive, yadda yadda

hell, that's not bad. but....what GPU do you have?

Lol yes, 3 500gb sata 2's (7200 hitachis) and a WD 7200 IDE 250gb

Space is important for me lol

I have another TB on my server... if I added ALL my hd's in laptops aswell i'd have 3.24TB LOL

Next UPG is GPU for sure, then PSU then RAM then thats me till a start all over again in a new case...


And Walden? You refering to me or Pika? Cause your system would beat this on multithreaded things due to your extra 2 cores......

And I like your Raptor, would love one if it wasent for the cost, heat and shorter lifespan. (At least going on what ive heard)

I will prob. just raid two 250's in my next system in a raid 0, though i wont have as good access times...

Raptors are **** ace. I love 'em.

I want a Velociraptor, though. those are even faster.

me? GPU? What is a GPU? (I am woefully inadequate - computer savvy wise - perhaps not my new system) I thought I was chose well, but now am confused....
Q6600 (2.40ghz), DCT, 8MB mean
4 GB, 800 mhz-2x1GB/2x512MB, SPNH MT
640 GB SATA, 7200 RPM, No RAID
ATI RADeon HD3650 256MB, IDT

Must be pretty good. My son looked at the specs, sucked his breth in and let out a whistle. hes trying to figure out how to do some serious overclocking and the attendent heat disposal problem.