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So, I decided to drop in a Q9550 to upgrade my aging E6420 from a couple years back. I knew going to a quad core - with a higher TDP than the C2D - would result in higher temps, but I wanted to see if the mine are reasonable or if I just need a better cooler. The patient: Zalman 7700CNPS...

I am currently running an Asus P5B (vanilla), an E6420( OC'd to 2.8 and cooled by a Zalman CNPS7700Cu cooler), OCZ SLI-Ready 4 x 1GB PC2 6400 and an Asus EAH4850, powered by an Antec 2 SmartPower 500W PSU. I like my current rig, but am looking to the future as certain parts are beginning to...

I've got 2x 1GB sticks of PC2-3200, yes DDR2 400 MHz, that I took out of an older machine that was running an Intel I915 chipset. Is there anything I can do to use this RAM with a newer, preferably C2D, processor, or should I try and sell it off. When I look for mobo's on the Egg, it doesn't...