Ste said:
Of all the forums, and reviews ive read, this is the only site that doesn't regaurd TT as bad. Also On my other forum, everyone hates TT products and we frequently get people posting about problems that are related back to PSU and its almost always a TT.
Well then go back to your other forums and stay there cuz you've been royally screwing people over on this forum.
And just being able to recommend $150 PSUs doesn't make you a PSU god. Not to mention that you know shi+ about other PC parts.
Thermaltake is an excellent PSU maker.
OK, Siegler, for one thing, I seriously recommend against the Abit AN8 motherboard. I have a Abit AV8 and I've had nothing but problems with it, and I can't imagine that the AN8 is much better. The DFI Lanparty that you say you're considering is the best Socket 939 motherboard out there, if you're overclocking; get it.
Back to RAM; Forget about Corsair. The Corsair XMS series is USELESS for overclocking, and its not even worth it for Value RAM because Corsair has a ValueSelect series thats MUCH cheaper and made to not overclock.
Now for the real problem; Its next to impossible to find 2 x 1GB sticks of good-overclocking RAM. Hell, its hard to even find single 1GB sticks.
You have two choices;
1.) Either go with 4 x 512MB sticks of excellent overclocking RAM, or;
2.) Buy 2 x 1GB sticks of RAM rated to run at DDR500 (250MHz) by default.
I don't see why you don't want to go with 4x 512MB sticks. If you do, you'll probably be able to go to more than 250FSB. I would recommend 4 x 512MB, but #2 would also work if you want to stick with 2 x 1GB.