not intense but i want to try out all games... well some games online... like farcry.
You have a funny definition of "not intense"
... especially if you have farcry in the same sentence heehee
What voltage should I use with the 250 FSB with my 2,8C P4 northwood with hyper threading
Whatever you need to make/keep it stable.
I tried using 1,65 voltage but it still freezes. What is the voltage max for a P4?
Look in your BIOS or better yet, the manual. According the manual, p84, the max Vcore is 1.600
Would Arctic silver be better than the white goo that came with the Zalman?
Depends on what the white goo was but probably
CPU -- Athlon64-3200 (Winchester) [$190]
MOBO -- Gigabyte GA-K8NS Ultra939 (NF3U) [$100]
RAM -- Some standard memory (say Kingmax PC3500 or Corsair ValueSelect PC3200) [$140]
HDD -- Hitatchi 160GB 8MB 7200 SATA [$95]
HSF -- Tt Venus12/SilentboostK8 [$30]
CASE + POWER -- Whatever [$100]
VIDEO -- eVGA Limited Edtion GeForce6800 or the ASUS V9999GE .. yes I'm aware these are 6800s but they are not your average 6800s and can (for the most part) be softmodded very easily with far superior resutls after successful softmod compared to other 6800s [$325]
Net: $980USD