Building an Opty165, advice/help appreciated!

son1

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Feb 17, 2006
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Hey guys, first time poster here but I've been reading on these forums alot. I'm about to build a new rig and I've decided on the Opty165 since I've only heard good things about it, well anyway lets get into it.

Only stepping available in the ENTIRE Hong Kong was the 0551WPMW(?), has anyone heard anything good/bad about the OC'ability of these? I'm just hoping for anything 2.4g+, are pretty much all Opty165s capable of that?

As for Mobo, they were out of stock on the LanParty NF4 Ultra-Ds (very very few DFI here) and only have either the SLI-Expert(which I don't like since I run Ati) and the the NF4-D. Now is going for the regular NF4-D instead of the Ultra-D hurt my OC'ing or performance?

Here, it was hard to find some G.Skill RAM but all that was available was DDR600 and it was too expensive for just 1g(2x512). I opted for the GEIL PC4000 DDR500 512x2 kit. I don't see many people on here using GEIL, are they ok?

For the PSU the dealer I talked to insisted that Seventeam 550W was identical to Antec's TPII 550W, is this true? Does it provide stable voltage?

I will be also using the ATI x1900xt-x 512MB graphics card xfire main card for display...and I should mention that the dealer said using a DFI DR200(?) mobo for crossfire would be good.. but I wasn't so sure on the OC'ability on that mobo.

Theres a lot of questions...so I'd appreciate any sort of feedback or advice :)
Stuff is real hard to find here in Hong Kong :(