My apologizes to anyone on this forum that may hate me or dislike me anyway, lol..

Upgrading from thie Foxconn 45CMX Micro ATX motherboard, from 4 gigs of DDR2 @ 834mhz, and my old ass Pentium Dual Core E2200! 2.4ghz @ 3.0ghz.

Soon to be upgrading to a Biostar T5 XE LGA 1156 ATX Motherboard!

Intel Core i3 540 @ 3.06ghz it solidly rapes AMD's 940, for under 20$ it is able to beat or come within close conditions of the quad except for on Multitasking applications!

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/143?vs=80

And last but least, my ram is the G.SKILL Ripjaws Series, 2x2gb @ 1600mhz.

Amazing.

This isn't final, but soon!

Edit : Wrong name

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omg omg, is this a place for everyone to list all the stuff their going to buy?

lol?

it's bought

just waiting for ups to ship it to me..

i'm not fond of any other company's boards to use for overclocking except for ASUS.

I know Gigabyte supposedly has nice features but i know nothing of Biostar.

If you really are planning on OCing this thing, make sure it has PLENTY of voltage controls. I think the i7s have on average around 5 different voltage points to set, non memory related, and MANY other settings.

The Asus Rampage Gene II board i've built for people has 2 1\2 pages of OC features used to stabilize the system properly.

If you do not plan on OC'ing that much, honestly, you could have passed on the GSkill memory and only spent $46 shipped on 4gb of DDR3 1600 memory instead.

I'm currently building a board for my cousin that consists of the following-

Asus P7H55-M Pro (he needs on board video with video out)

i3 540 (same as yours)

Silverstone Single rail 400w PSU

$100 Heatsink with triple fans

4gb of DDR3 1600

He's gettin all of that for $380 shipped.

We will be OC'ing his processor goal-wise to around 4ghz per core and bumping his memory up, if any, to no more than around 1620.

Due to his onboard video, we can't surpass 1666 without cpu goin crazy.

His FSB will be insanely boosted as that's the hot spot for speed.

His heatsink\fans option will cool the new 6core systems too so when he upgrades to larger core cpu in the future, he won't have to change the heatsink.