I have made the plunge

[RoosterKooster]

I have ordered almost all my new personal system components from newEgg and a handful from SVC.

I have ordered a work system thru Monarch but the order has gone nowhere for almost 14 days then today it hit stage three. Too many unanswered emails for me and I decided to not go with them for my personal system. We'll see how this all plays out.

Just a side not - The first "XT clone" I bought was in 1985 and it was about $1360.00
This much faster system - 20 years later - was $1600. What's that in 1985 dollars or what's the $1360 in 1985 dollars equiv. to today?

Personal system to be is AMD Athlon64 X2 4400+ powered. Following Caveman's, some OCZ Guy (sorry - do not have your handle right now) and others feedback and testimony, I have elected the following components:
X2 4400+
ThermalRight-On XP-120
Panaflo M1A w/ 3-wire pigtail
ASUS A8N-SLI Premium Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX
ASUS EN6600/TD/256 Geforce 6600 256MB DDR PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail
OCZ EL Platinum Revision 2 1GB Kit(2 x 512MB) PC3200 DC - OCZ4001024ELDCPER2-K
SeaSonic S-12 500 watt
2ea - Western Digital Caviar SE WD1600JS 160GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s (I kinda screwed this up but I'll raid these)

Antec Performance I P180 Silver Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
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I have received the case - it is very nice. Those 12cm fans are HUGE and that air scoop looks cool! It has a small dent on the left side panel but I won't raise a stink about it. The inside of the panel is unmarred.

Given the MB, ram, cooling, PS, may I ask some of you experienced overclockers what settings I might start with to try to bump the 4400+ up to 2.4 GHz or possibly 2.5 GHz?

Thank you very much in advance.

 

[Markfw]

Are you a gamer ? That video card is very weak for todays high-end games. Other than that, it looks great !

 

[Xed]

My 4400+ was stable at 2640 out of the box, haven't tried to push it further yet

2.4 shouldn't be an issue at all, imo

edit - oh you asked for settings =)

Try 11x240 (3x or 4x htt)
2-3-3-7 1t ram timings (my plat r2 would do 255+ without a prob at 2.6v but it's tccd, not what voltage your tcc5 will want)
bump up your vcore .25 until you can get it stable (I wouldn't go much past 1.5 but I'm a bit conservative there)

Go up or down from there depending on how your chip reacts

 

[Hacp]

I would stick with 2-2-2-5 timings at 210-220 and use the divider form there. Sue me, i'm a fan of Ultra tight timings

 

[RoosterKooster]

No, I am not much of a gamer. FlightSim is about it for games.

I hope it all goes together well and components are problem free.

 

[RoosterKooster]

Thanks, Xed and Hacp. I appreciate the tips. I should get all the components tomorrow and hopefully fire it up over the weekend.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

I hope where you bought the mobo and CPU flash the bios for you. It's being reported that many people are receiving the premium with an older bios that won't post with the X2. There is a thread in this forum about it

 

[RoosterKooster]

I bought it from NewEgg. I am hoping it is good to go.

 

[MichaelD]

I'm hoping that my X2 rig is OK w/games. AFTER I spent a crapload of money, I started reading about how almost all modern games are crapping out w/the X2. I bought a 4400 too. I got the EVGA motherboard/7800GTX deal at Newegg.

We'll find out tomorrow.