[DriveRaider]

Im helping my friend build a computer and i just wanted to pass the specs by you guys for compatability and stabilty. his budget is $800 and it will come out to about $795 after rebates. Here are the parts that I am planning on getting him.

sata DVD drive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827106228

Case Antec 900( theyre so cheap now )
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129021

Hard drive SATA 750gb Hitachi
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145166

8800 GTS 512 BFG
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814143119

600 watt PSU
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341001

G. skill 800 Ram
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231098

DFI lan party p35 motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813136043

Q6600
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115018

I am a bit Iffy about the quad core. ive been doing some research and ive been finding out that the newer quads have a higher VID , such as mine which is 1.312v. This limits the max overclock you can get with these chips. Im just curious if you can achieve higher overclocks with this VID even though you may have to increase Vcore more to reach stable.

[werth]

looks good to me.. make sure to get an aftermarket heatsink and some mx-2
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835233003

dont worry about the new q6600

[DriveRaider]

what you mean by dont worry about the new Q6600 as in, dont worry about its VID or dont worry about getting the new Q6600?

[werth]

dont worry about it, buy it, its fine. personally i would get an e8400 as i think two cores is plenty at 4ghz guaranteed for cheaper.. but if he wants a quad the q6600 is fine

[DriveRaider]

will E8400 work on DFI lanparty?

[werth]

thats what i have yea

[Super J]

also a really good cheaper overclocking board is the p5k.  that is what i am using and it will take e8400 and q6600

[johnny5]

really e8400 is not much cheaper than q6600 (or at least not at newegg.com)