SchmilK Wrote:screw that processor!  Get this, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...6819115037

the newer E8000 series use the 45nm technology, so they run cooler. meaning you can overclock the spoon out of them. I've seen 4.6ghz pumped out of a 3ghz E8400 with a decent air cooler. i wonder what's possible with a water cooling setup and a beefy enough mobo?

demonchild Wrote:http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductLis...401+-+500W

But eff it, I went to down to a Core Duo as SchMilk suggested.

better psu, much better. i had a 370watt psu in my computer and that struggled to run a pentium 4 HT 3ghz, a dvd burner, 3 hdd's, an olde GPU, an olde sound card and a shedload of fans. so, last weekend i added a second psu at the bottom of the case (i 'borrowed' it from an old broken computer. 250watt) and use it to power the dvd burner and 2 of the hdd's and most of the fans. its triggered by a relay that switches on the second psu when it detecs power coming from the original psu.

if i had some cash i would have bought a new, more powerful psu rather than shoehorning a second one in, but I'm skint, got all the parts for free and competent in basic electronics