I am going to put these things on eBay, but thought I'd post them here so any interested simmers could have first dibs.
If someone were to buy the motherboard and one of the CPUs I would include all of my overclock data so that you could quickly set up the board including what must be many dozen hours worth of work carefully overclocking with the lowest voltages required. It's already set up for the E8400 so that would be plug and play since that's what I'm currently running in my machine.
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Dual-Core Processor - Retail This should need no introduction - known for being a truly great dual core CPU that is comfortable overclocking up to 3.6GHz on good air cooling which is well above its stock 2.4GHz speed. I am more the type to save energy so if I don't need the OC I'm running it at stock with speed step on, and I only ran it minimally overclocked most of the time otherwise. It is just fine running at 3.5GHz, mine stayed cool and I kept voltages well below the intel stated max values. Not all chips have the same potential, but this one was pretty nice! Asking: 100 OBO
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115003
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz 6MB L2 Cache LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115037
This is the current price/performance sweet spot for any CPU on the market. Similar to the E6600 this dual core CPU is famous for its ease of overclocking and the performance that it can attain. . .4.0GHz on AIR cooling is
easy, and it will do it at lower volts and temps than the E6600 does 3.5GHz. This particular chip runs ORTHOS stable at 3.5 GHz at
stock voltages which is pretty impressive, and I've had it to 3.96 GHz and it only needs 1.335 volts to reach that, and average 49C so this is a better batch than if you were to buy the recent ones from NewEgg etc (which are more cash and something of a crapshoot with respect to overclocking ability). This 45nm CPU also adds 2 more megabytes of onboard cache which also means that clock for clock it's a bit faster than the 65nm E6600. Asking 140
ABIT AB9 QuadGT - the very best performing P965 motherboard ever. . .it is faster than the P35s and many newer boards as well. While older, it was a top of the line board with multiple BIOS profiles so you can load the perfect overclock profile for the task at hand, or run it cool and quiet with speedstep on if you are not simming. It's got all the features - 6 USB 2.0 headers and 4 USB 2.0 ports, Firewire, 8 channel HD audio onboard, e-SATA, an external CMOS reset (no jumpers to mess with!), RAID, LCD display that shows what the board is doing, and if it were to have an error, the code would be displayed to allow for easy troubleshooting. Performance wise it has exceptionally tight system subtimings, manual strap control (the first board to feature it too), digital PWMs, solid state capacitors, great voltage regulation, and is capable of high FSB speeds on dual and quad core 65 and 45nm CPUS so even if you are overclocking a QuadCore Q9550 to 3.8GHz you'll be good to go! It also has a programmable blue LED light show on the back side all around the edges, my girlfriend actually thought the soft blue glow was kinda romantic. . .it's interesting how much more girls like computers when they are pretty, and this board really is nice looking in person, especially when it's on.
Asking 80 OBO. . .Swooning girl not included, but recommended.
Crucial Ballistix Tracers (LEDs on chip indicate activity) 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1000 (PC2 8000) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148047
These are the Tracer version of Crucial Ballistix back when they were double sided and built using the famed Micron D9GMH chips. They also have two rows of multi colored activity indicating LEDs on the top of the sticks, as well as "running lights on the pin side with a lovely blue glow. I thought I would not like the light show - I just wanted the D9s, but actually I loved being able to see if the RAM was active or not if the system were to hang etc, and I must confess to having spent more than a moment just looking in my case to see them and the mobo lightshow. These were 400 bucks when I bought them and hard to get given the demand for the D9GMH chips. I'm actually not sure I'm going to be able to let them go just yet - but I'm putting them here anyway. . .just be aware I might change my mind. 55
Hand lapped TuniqTower 120
http://www.anandtech.com/casecooling/showdoc.aspx?i=2906This large aircooler (that's a 120 mm fan inside it) has better cooling than many watercooling setups, and that's stock! Mine is not stock, I bought a lapping kit, and spent a few hours getting a nice flat mirror finish on the base of the heatsink to allow even better cooling. I never tested it before lapping, but read that it will drop load temps about 3-5C on average vs a non lapped Tuniq. When I bought it, there was not an aircooler close to it - see the review link above for some performance info. This will keep any dual core CPU nice and cool even overclocked as far as you can take the chip. QuadCores will be cool too other than if you are going to 4 GHz (and only the Q9550, Q9650 and the 1,000 QX9770s Quadcores can do that). It is large - if you have a medium or smaller case, you should measure from the mobo to the side panel and verify you have 153mm of clearance. This also has a PCI slot fan speed rheobus included. Asking 55
