Originally posted by sammorris:

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Make a post in our official overclocking thread when you're done building the PC, and then we'll help you from there, it's quite simple.
As for AA, it's a technique used to remove all the jaggedy pixelated lines in games.
Read here for more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-aliasing
The video you saw was not a heated substance, it was thermal grease, which is that state at room temperature. It's used to make a better contact between the CPU and it's cooler. Most of us here at aD use the stuff, but be advised it can only be used if you've cleaned the existing stuff off the cooler and/or CPU first. The bonus of it though is if you ever do remove or change your CPU cooler, you can put a new one back without having to clean the stuff off.
The process applies for all CPUs.
The RAM you've posted is fine for performance, but if you want to overclock, it'll greatly reduce how far you can get. If you want 4GB of RAM (recommended for top-end games, but will you really be playing those?) it'll be better to go with this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145184 but really, on any reasonable budget, I'd stick with the 2GB.
The reviewers on newegg are, in all honesty, retards. They haven't got a clue what they're saying. Your memory usage with Vista will only be insane if you use Aero and all the other features Vista offers, whilst playing games. Disable Aero before you go in a memory intensive app and you'll probably be alright. As with XP, I'd recommend you have 4GB if you were a gamer, but unless you get gaming grade components elsewhere, it's pointless.
Getting a motherboard that can support 8GB of RAM is not expensive at all, getting the 8GB might be! Seriously though, don't bother, 4 gigs is all you'll need for a very long time.

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