K7N2-Delta-ILSR

[TomaHawK]

SO what about that board?? would cost me 3 euro more then the abit NF7-S (i think it´s called like that) and it would look 100x cooler (the MSI that is) it has the nforce2 chipset. Now here is my question, would it overclock just as well with the barton 2.5ghz and ocz pc3200 2x512mhz 400mhz? How does the 2.6ghz barton overclock? any info on that? thanx in advance =)


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[TKH]

If Abit NF7-S is cheaper, definitely get Abit. Abit is extremely good at overclocking, only second to Epox 8RDA+ and has many more features than Epox. MSI is lacking voltage control in BIOS therefore the overclockability is not very good compare to Asus/Abit/Epox/Gigabyte. and I assume you mean Barton 2500+ and 2600+ because overclock a Barton to 2.5GHz you'll need extremely liquid cooling, and I haven't heard anyone can do 2.6GHz yet. I remember you like MSI pretty much though, so if are very keen on MSI, overclock a 2500+ to 200MHz FSB to match your PC3200 RAM shouldn't be a big problem.

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[TomaHawK]

ack! okay, i give up, hehe so what would be the best cooler to get for some heavy oc´ing, just the cpu tho

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[TKH]

Which way will you go? Liquid or air? If liquid cooling I don't have much knowledge on this if air cooling Thermalright, Swiftech, Vantec, and Zalman offer good solution.

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[TomaHawK]

it´s gonna be air, even tho the system at bluecooling.com looks nice and seems rather cheap. care to be more specific on what type of cooler i mean names =)

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[TKH]

It's has been some time since I last read review on HSF, but I know Thermalright SLK-900A and Swiftech MCX649C [mind the model no., I'm not very sure] are very good.

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[TomaHawK]

once again thatnk you for your reply,man =) the slk 900 is 61 euro!!! ouch! i might go for the watercooling then, wich is just 18 euros more (+shipping)oh gees, i can decide...
i wonder how much power the watercooling needs compared to a the slk 900A

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[TKH]

Try to post at Cooler & Heatsink forum, there are expert there.

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[folken]

a good liquid cooling system will cost you much more than that. especially one that would allow you to oc that much. You could probably put something to gether for about $200, I'm not sure what that is in euro's. Innovatek makes the best liquid cooling stuff by far.