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[PC_Caveman]

COOLER MASTER Stacker 830 RC-830-SSN2-GP Silver Aluminum ATX Full Tower Computer Case - $259.99

ASUS P5B Deluxe/WiFi-AP LGA 775 Intel P965 Express ATX Intel Motherboard - $194.99

BFG Tech BFGR88768GTXOCE GeForce 8800GTX 768MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 OC HDCP Video Card - $579.99

Antec NeoHE 500 ATX12V 500W Power Supply - $99.99

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz LGA 775 Processor Model BX80557E6600 - $314.00

G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model F2-6400PHU2-2GBZX - $219.99

Western Digital Caviar SE WD2500JS 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - $69.99

Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard - $71.99

SCEPTRE X20WG-Naga Black 20.1" 5ms (GTG) DVI Widescreen LCD Monitor - $229.99

Logitech MX518 2-Tone 8 Buttons 1 x Wheel USB + PS/2 Wired Optical Gaming-Grade Mouse - $39.99

LITE-ON Black IDE DVD-ROM Drive Model LH-16D1P-185 - $71.96

Update Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 SP2b w/Upgrade Coupon for Vista - $109.99

LINKSYS WRT54G IEEE 802.3/3u, IEEE 802.11b/g Wireless-G Broadband Router - $49.99

LINKSYS WMP54G 32bit PCI2.2 Wireless-G Adapter - $49.99

Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound - $15.99

ZALMAN CNPS9500 LED 92mm 2 Ball Cooling Fan with Heatsink - $53.99

AeroCool Streamliner-Black 140mm Blue LED Case Fan x4-$55.96

Update Scythe S-FLEX SFF21D 120mm Case Fan x5- $67.95

Subtotal: $2,556.73
I am hoping i am not forgetting anything, will i need a fan controller? If i am missing anyhting or you have suggestions on some parts plz let me know.

 

[Sora]

Wow...you went overkill on the cooling don't you think? I don't care how much you overclock lol. Thats an incredible ammount of case fans and such an expensive case. The rest of the build is solid enough though.

 

[PC_Caveman]

I agree i went overkill with cooling, but isnt it a good investment? and my case is pricey but i love the build and size, and ability to ungrade and exand so much with it.If i wanted to OC the crap out of my e6600 what would be suffient cooling to never worry about overheating. Are the fans i chose good(140mm). there was only 1 choice on newegg,lol.

 

[Sora]

the thing is, you can only keep a chip so cool on air. Even with all those great fans you would get to a point where you would need water cooling over air.

 

[King X13]

not true at all, im running 4x 120mm fans as well and it is a great investment, specially for overall system temps(ram, hdd, motherboard, chipset, etc.) watercooling is whats overkill and really only needs to be done on extreme systems or just for fun. otherwise at my highest overclock of 3.5ghz on my chip none of my temps went above 100f or 34c.

 

[Sora]

well 3.5 isnt really that high on an E6300. That's a decent OC but 4ghz is where it gets really hot.

 

[PC_Caveman]

I'll be having 9 total fans but will most likely going SLI on 8800gtx evetually and pushing my 6600 to about 3.6-3.8 So i wanted as much cooling as i could get, but with 5 120's and 4 140's in the side panel would i need a fan controller? Also i was wondering about the quality of m PSU and overclockability of my ram.

 

[NosBoost300]

i think cnps9500 is for am2?? am i not wrong?? you should look at the cnps9700

 

[PC_Caveman]

9500 Compatibility: Intel: All Dual Core Pentium CPUs (Socket 775) All Pentium 4 CPUs (Socket 775 / 478) AMD: All Dual Core AMD Athlon 64 X2 CPUs (Socket 939) All AMD Sempron/AMD64 CPUs (Socket 754 / 939 / 940)

I was told and found it to be a great heatsink. With my additional fans my system should be cool enough to OC pretty high.