It does look good, think I will pop into the shop today

Ah. Cool. I think you will love FO3. But remember, FO3 is also CPU intensive. No matter what great graphics card you have, the CPU needs to crunch this game. Considering your plans for this build, your machine will handle FO3 very well.

There's NOTHING like playing older games that you couldn't on your old PC when you build a fresh one...mmmm yeah.

Fuzzy why are you overclocking? Shortens the life of your componets you know...

The lifetime of components with factory settings is way longer than you ever intend to use them anyway. (in other words, on factory settings they will be outdated before they break down from wear and tear)

Granted if overclocked improperly (eg. to high), lifetime could be reduced to a few seconds. But reducing lifetime from 50 years to 10 won't really matter that much.

im totally lost when it comes to all this just happy for you and your new purchase fuzzy enjoy

Fuzzy, you may want to wait until October for Fallout 3. They're coming out with a GotY edition, which will include all 5 DLC.  Of course, if the sale you saw is a really sweet deal, then go for that.

Hey Fuzzy, overclocking with that board should be easy.  While i'm not 100% certain it is the same as the Rampage II you should be able to install the asus ai suite and you will have it to 3.4 with a couple of clicks.  Then you can fine tune when you see fit.

Kona, I think Weike said it best.  As long as the thermals are kept in check the lengevitity doesn't seem to be an issue.

I've got computers that are on 24/7 that are 5+ years old and are oc'd a bit and don't have any problems.

However i tend to be lazy and cautious with OC'ing.

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You can easily get 4.0 out of the i7 920, but I'm stopping at 3.4 for a reason. It's fast, very fast, but also completely safe.

My current pc is just over 3 years old, so the new one won't have to last longer than that. Of course OC'ing over stresses components, but providing you have the right cooling and are sensible about the limits it's not a problem.

Didn't know about the F3 GOTY - bought it already, I didn't want to wait in case the price went up.

Installing will have to wait until I get out of hospital https://forums.wincustomize.com/363227 I'll have about a week off work recovering, so plenty of time to play

Ah, I wish you a speedy recovery, Fuzzy (even though that will shorten your gaming time!)

Mines done.......getting 8gb of ram stable was a major PITA but I've got a 24 hour test w/0 errors so I figure I'm good to go

Cooler Master HAF 932
Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P Rev. 1.6
Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.83Ghz
w/ Cooler Master V-8
XFX Radeon HD 4870 1GB DDR5
4x2GB G. Skill DDR2 1066
Corsair 750W PSU Single Rail
(2) WD 640GB Caviar Black HDD (gonna go RAID when I get my Windows 7)
Samsung 22X DVD Burner SATA
Vista SP1 64-bit

@Lantec:

Cool machine! Nice build.

Nice Lantec, looks clean.  Why was the RAM so bad, are you overclocking it?  (Never had problems with RAM except bad ones)

Lantec, you and I have the same Mother board, ram and processor. I went with the Nvidia GTX 260OC for video, 300GB VelociRaptor drive for the OS, and a 1TB Caviar black for main storage.

Took me a day to decide on the ram after extensive reading at Newegg and Gigabyte to figure what ram would run 8 GB at 1066.

Great system that runs quite stable. I decided against the V8 cooler after reading that it is a bit heavy for the board's suggested CPU fan weight. 

Still trying to decide what fan to use but the stock cooler is doing ok for now since it's not over clocked. Suprised it's only at 42 degrees

Fuzzy, Fallout 3 is an awesome game but when it's patched up to the latest patch, it's unstable as hell.

Keep this in mind when installing. I'd run it without patching if your not going to use the add ons.