Ok, so I'm kinda new at overclocking as I've always been afraid I'd mess something up. But I toyed with it some with an old Pentium 4 2.4ghz. My problem though is how do you know when to increase the voltage and when to increase the FSB? With the 2.4ghz I could get it up to alomst 3ghz increaseing the FSB, if I got any higher than that though my computer would stop booting and I would have to reset the BIOS settings. Anyways a quick overclocking 101 would be nice from someone who understands it better than I do.

NZXT Zero Black/Silver Aluminum ATX Full Tower Computer Case $149.99

ASUS P5E LGA 775 Intel X38 ATX Intel Motherboard $229.99

XFX PVT88GYDF4 GeForce 8800GTS (G92) 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready $299.99

KINGWIN ABT-800MA1S ATX / BTX 800W Power Supply $174.99

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz LGA 775 Quad-Core Processor $276.99

OCZ SLI-Ready Edition 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) $105.99

Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST3500320AS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive 119.99

Total: $1357.93

The Motherboards standard for DDR is DDR2 1200 thats what I thought it ok to use the 1066. PLus with 1066 it matches the same speed as the processors FSB, but not sure if that makes a difference.

Again I will be adding another 2gb of ram and another 8800 over the next month or so.

I would go with the Intel Q6600 quad core. Also you might want to look in getting 2 of the 8800GTS (G92) as they are about half the price of the GTX and get very very close to the same performace as the GTX, just go look at some benchmarks where they compare the 2. That goes with the processors too, if your not sure between Intel or AMD quad, just check some benchmarks.

NZXT Zero Black/Silver Aluminum ATX Full Tower Computer Case $149.99

ASUS P5E LGA 775 Intel X38 ATX Intel Motherboard $229.99

XFX PVT88GYDF4 GeForce 8800GTS (G92) 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready $299.99

KINGWIN ABT-800MA1S ATX / BTX 800W Power Supply $174.99

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz LGA 775 Quad-Core Processor $276.99

OCZ SLI-Ready Edition 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) $105.99

Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST3500320AS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive 119.99

Total: $1357.93

The Motherboards standard for DDR is DDR2 1200 thats what I thought it ok to use the 1066. PLus with 1066 it matches the same speed as the processors FSB, but not sure if that makes a difference.

Again I will be adding another 2gb of ram and another 8800 over the next month or so.