Yeah, I figured as much. Although the prescotts have longer pipes and bottleneck more than the northwoods they will tolerate more OC'ing. Mine was stable at 3.7 for everything except when I used rb/cce to encode. Probably wouldn't hurt to up my psu a bit since I'm using the 350 watt psu that came with my antec case. I tried raising vcore to 1.575 but was afraid to go any higher. I can go to about 3.67 and remain completely stable. 3.6 is good enough and not pushing things too hard.
Did you get your quote with the included 19" flat panel? I don't think you can beat $200. I've seen them and they are nice. I bought mine 2 and a half years ago (NEC XtraView+ 19") and don't even want to say how much I paid :)
Antec TX1050B Case w/500W Power Supply
ASUS P4P800SE
Intel P4 HT 3.2 OC'd 3.85
Zalman CNPS9500 Heatsink/CPU Fan
4GB PC3200 Dual Channel DDR RAM
Nvidia 6800 OC'd
500GB SATA Raid 0
Lite-On 832 DVD
HP 740b DVD
When I started my project, I intended to keep my old CPU, so I bought a socket 478 motherboard. When I found out how well it overclocked, I decided to buy a new processor as well.
You know what they say about hindsight, but all-in-all, I'm extremely pleased with my box.
Antec TX1050B Case w/500W Power Supply
ASUS P4P800SE
Intel P4 HT 3.2 OC'd 3.85
Zalman CNPS9500 Heatsink/CPU Fan
4GB PC3200 Dual Channel DDR RAM
Nvidia 6800 OC'd
500GB SATA Raid 0
Lite-On 832 DVD
HP 740b DVD
It should serve you well and you've got the fan and h/s to keep it cool. I've got the same mobo as you but only a zalman 7000b to keep things cool. It does fine since the northwoods run cooler. Seldom hotter than my mobo. Good chatting with ya.
