[E92Fan]

Originally Posted by needforspeed

I bought an Advent T12 a couple of years ago ....

P4 3.6 GHz
512mb DDR RAM
Nvidia 6610XL graphics

Last week I got a bit carried away and upgraded it with the following ....

Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz

http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/112706

Which meant a new motherboard (MSI G965M)

http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/121045

Which meant new DDR2 RAM

http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/111439

Then to round it off a new BFG 8800 GTS OC graphics card.

http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/131673

Can't quite believe I spend £200 on a graphics card. But it's actually really good fun taking out all the innards and re-building the thing.

Anyone else into building PC's? Now I want to try to overclock my CPU .. aparently it'll run at 3.0GHz all day long.

Haha I've been customizing and building PCs since the early days of the 386SX...! Remember one of those? It was a 16Mhz chip, with 128k cache... and was the mutt's nuts at the time.

You can overclock your 2.4Ghz Duo chip, but you will need extra cooling - you can use a fancy water-cooled case etc, but the amount of money you'll spend on it, you should just sell the Duo chip and buy a 2.8Ghz Extreme (four cores as opposed to two)... However, one of the biggest differences in speed is by increasing the memory size to 2Gb, or at the very most 4Gb. (no point using over 4Gb of memory, as Windows Vista / available software doesn't take full advantage of >4Gb RAM).

If u want/need any help, ask away..