What do I need?

[JohnJH05]

I just bought: Antec Performance PLus Series case
P4 2.8 800mhz
Abit IS7 mobo
I have an old GeForce 4 mx440
Sound Blaster Live
I was wondering which ram would be good.... was lookin at HyperX 2 x 512mb
Which CPU fans are good?

 

[Nebor]

Corsair PC4000 would sweeeeet for overclocking at 1:1.... give you up to over 6 gb\s memory bandwidth.... *drool*

 

[Kremus]

You should match your RAM speed with with your mobo and chip so that you can get the most out of it. By buying faster RAM then you highest bottle neck you are doing nothing but waisting money. Corsair makes great RAM for any system. I just put some in my new system and it preforms great.

 

[Nebor]

Ram is currently and shall for the forseeable future be the bottleneck of the 865\875 chipset... So for you to say faster ram is a waste of money boarders on idiocy. CorsairPC4000 is capable of running at 520mhz... or a 260mhz FSB, as stated in multiple reviews. This boosts your FSB from 800mhz to over 1000mhz, while taking your Processor from 200x (your multiplier, 14 for a 2.8) = 2800 mhz to 260x14= 3640mhz. With good cooling, that is feasible. And you're maintaining the all important 1:1 ratio, which keeps intel Performance Acceleration Technology enabled. This is known to proved between a 5-15% performance boost.

The point is PC4000 allows you to hit high overclocks AND maintain 1:1... up until now, it's been one or the other.

 

[Kremus]

I gave him advise based on the info that he gave in his post. It would be a waste of money if he is not going to overclock. Not everbody overclocks there computers. The bottle neck also resides in your HHD seek time unless you are running raid or SATA 10,000 rpms.

Oh and to asnwer your question about cooling Zalman makes some great CPU cooling fans. Not to fond of the noiseless ones but the models with fans do really well.