To simplify what the above poster said,

to upgrade in a few years(2-4 years) you will probably will need a new mother board because the new cpus will require a different socket to work, thus making have to ugrade your motherboard. But you should be able to keep your power supply for a good 4-5 years if you get a decent one, your case. You shouldn't have to upgrade your mobo like i said in 2-4 years to get the new stuff.

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dont waste your money paying for windows....

(im not suggesting pirating, like some moderator keeps thinking and banning me, but there are other OSs and such)

mista-bungle

So what's he going to use, OS/2 Warp! ? Welcome to 2008 where there is one and only one viable operating system for gaming: Vista.

yeah im def. picking up a copy of vista with my order

the day i pay for windows is the day i quit using it.

(that doesn't mean i pirate it mods/i dont condone pirating jeesh)

yea E7200 ocs fantasticly

nice build

he can get what he wants....

to me it seems like to much of a hassle.

When you increase the speed of the FSB the speed of your memory also goes up. When the clocks get too high it becomes unstable, you may have to set a different memory ratio if you want to push the CPU further. If you could give us the RAM speed with the higher FSB it will help us decide if your RAM is unstable due to too high clocks, or if it is being limited by voltage.Marfoo

cool give me a couple minutes, thanks for the insight, ocing is starting to make a lot more sense.

What's your RAM rated to run at? At any rate, you picked a dismal board to overclock on - it wouldn't surprise me if you're running into the limitations of your motherboard.RayvinAzn

i just checked the ocz memory, 2.1 is as high as it goes, no wonder why i was having problems, i should have checked. I have another question, my memory can do 4-4-4-12 timings, what benifit will that give me if use that?

im content with almost 3.5, not bad concidering my mobo and its E7200 @ 2.5.