Gaming Rigs

[Patonb]

great and with the NH-D14 cooler I'd be able to clock the mobo and cpu to about 4.8GHz, or just the mobo/chips ??

You only overclock cpu's.... using the mobo bios, which tweeks the mobo chipsets.

The Noctua is the cooling fan that cools the cpu... cooler you are the higher you get too.

My i7 950 is stock at 3.06Ghz, I run it though at 4.0Ghz. If i used the stock cooler, I'd only get a 3.6Ghz overclock as it would overheat after that.. But with the Noctua cooler I have, I can get easilhy 4.0Ghz and stay at my safe temp.

Overclocking causes heat, if you can coolit you can clock higher. People test using liquid nitrogen as a cooler running 6+Ghz on cpus like the 2600s

 

[macandy13]

good to know, thanks patonb

 

[ISF]

If i can get some of the best components out there it'll be great as ill only need to upgrade them when they get fried or become out dated.

It really comes down to your budget.
There's some good suggestion's here however the word best usually come's a hefty price. If you're not into the whole idea of over-clocking rest assured no cpu or gpu will just randomly burn. Relatively speaking, if you buy any of Intel's i7 socket 1366 family of central processing unit's undoubtedly you won't need to upgrade for another 3 to 4 years. I have mine's already over a solid 2 years. There is absolutely no rush for renovation in my chassis.
Load it up with 12 gigabyte's of ram, an Asus motherboard [the best on the market, period!] and you have a half way thunderbolt machine.
All in all, the only gamble is the video card. There's no way you can win with that although if you buy any of Nvidia's ultra series [GTX 295/590] installed in SLI, you will have some slack. Likewise with ATi.

 

[Patonb]

Your only problem is a 2600k is barely more expensive, and is hopefully a longer life time path.... But its intel.

 

[ISF]

Intel's i7 socket 1366 differentiate's from their predecessor's. It's a brand new design that of socket 775, which was pretty good already.
i7 core's are tremendously evolved. Just wondering what one the world's technology juggernaut's has in store for the next decade!

 

[Patonb]

I can tell you the next big thing..... Its the 1155 Sandy bridge that replaced the 1156 I7/5/3.. Also the 2011 IvyBridge which is replacing 1366 x58 socket come Jan 2012.

1366 is dead, only reason to get a 1366 now is to go Xeon dual socket and 200Gig of ram, or 4 gpus.