Upgrade to better GPU or to SSD?

[kingpinda]

Originally Posted by bw_wolverine

Anyone know a good guide for overclocking the i7 940?

I've got very little experience with it. I've heard that if you've got good case airflow that you can OC the i7 920/940 a bit without needing anything other than the stock fan/heatsink. Obviously not gonna push 4ghz, but I think you can get it to 3.2 or some such.

I've got a nice roomy Antec P180 case.

OCing is not something you just do :p its a sport... nah its not but you should really read alot about it. I think there is this site called ocforums or somesuch. There's quite a bit involved in ocing your rig stable. trial and error. every cpu behaves differently. even if its the same series and production line then its no guarantee that because person A clocked his cpu to 4ghz on stock cooling that person B gets the same result. It could be that person B gets it stable to 3.750ghz with exactly the same system.

Have fun though. its a cool passtime

[kimosabi]

Get on overclock.net, BW. You won't find a better place to learn overclocking all at one forum. Well, you have extremesystems.com but they have slower servers.

As for the upgrade, get rid of that GTX260 and slap whatever upgrade you can afford in there instead. Your proc is probably bored.

Do NOT overclock that cpu more than max 200mHz with a stock cooler. They emit heat faster than you can say barbeque.