well, after reading the manuals and a few reviews of this one that you suggested,
GIGABYTE Geforce 6600GT GV-NX66T128VP
I guess that this is the one i'll go for as it is a fanless design, plus the vivo. Just got to find it cheaper than $380 heheh
i think i understand the memory divider, for overclocking you use a ratio such as 6/5 or something right? i've really got to read a good overclocking manual, plenty of time yet. but from what i understand, is that you up the htt (or fsb speed) and drop the memory speed but find a fraction such as 6/5 or whatever fraction ur mobo supports that multiplies against the lower mem speed to equal the new bus speed right? because the athlon64 3200+ multiplier is locked, so then you just multiply ur fsb by the multiplier to get the new clock speed.
i think that upping the fsb (htt) would affect the graphics card function, but since this gigabyte one has a mem speed of 1120MHZ and core speed of 500MHZ, and with overclocking ability, that should work just fine right?
the only thing i'm not sure of is the voltages and stuff.
How do you find the stock cooler of the athlon64 3200+? in terms of noise levels and cooling? i believe it comes with a thermal pad on it, so i'm going to buy some of that arcticlean to dissolve that pad, and clean it, and then use AS5.
with regards to graphics card cooling, i notice that when i'm playing any games, or running full screen video, the heatsink on my card gets quite hot. so about a week ago, i just cut a hole in the side of my case, and put in an 80mm fan to blow sideways onto the heatsink. i have a aluminium filter over the fan, cuz i don't want dust inside the machine, and i had a 60mm - 80mm fan adaptor, so i put these things together, to keep the fan further away from the filter (to reduce noise) and get closer to the graphics heatsink. anyway, after i had played need for speed 3 for an hour or so (usually this makes that heatsink really hot) i touch tested it, to find it was very cool indeed, and the fan itself is very very quiet, almost inaudible. i included a picture to show hehe so i guess, with my new case, and new graphics card, depending on how hot it does get, i'll probably do something similar, though it will be cutting plexiglass instead of metal... so a little bit of researching for that is needed.
(sorry for long post)