Three lucky readers of CustomPC will get their PCs tweaked and overclocked by their resident overclocking aficionados, Gareth Ogden and James Gorbold.  In addition, any upgrades will be thrown in for free so expect some goodies if you’re the lucky winner.
I’ve entered my machine as I think it’d make a nice little project because of the number of things it occasionally has to handle at the same time.  I think my machine would have so much potential in the right hands.  I have a good spec, but I haven’t done a lot of overclocking as this is the first PC I’ve built, so I’m a novice.

What might make my machine a candidate is the fact that I use it as a multimedia hub.  It’s running Windows XP MCE and it serves my music, tv and movies to a Xbox 360 Extender and also to two modded Xbox’s both running XBMC all in HD.  At times I can have my nieces and nephews watching different films in different rooms, as well as myself watching TV on one of my monitors, at the same time as I’m downloading and possibly burning/encoding something.

I definitely have a lot of gear to make a good article out of!

To enter the competition click here.

My current spec is:

PC

• OS: XP MCE
• CPU: AMD 4200+
• Case: Gigabyte Aurora
• Motherboard: A8R-MVP
• Ram: 4×1GB DDR400 (I can only get 3GB recognised and I’d had problems with overclocking attempts and my timing sucks)
• Videocard: X1900 XTX flashed to XT
• Cooling: SwiftTech H20-120Premium+ GPU block+Coolermaster HDD fan unit in bay, 3xSilenX Ixtrema 120mm LED Fans (Shush….!)
• TV Card: Hauppauge Nova-T 500
• HDD: 2×250GB Samsung P120S SATA, 1×400GB Western Digital SATA, 1×500 WD SATA, 1×200GB Western Digital IDE, 1×250GB Lacie External HDD
• PSU: Seasonic S12-600 PSU
• Soundcard: Soundblaster X-Fi
• Monitors: 2xSamsung 913N
• Webcam: Logitech 4200 (I think)
• Mouse: Logitech Multimedia
• Keyboard: Cheap number from PCWorld
• Printer: 2210 all-in-one
• Optical: LSA 4163×2 (one’s a bit dodgy)
• Speakers:  Altec Lansing ACS495 (9 years old)

Front-room:

• Consoles: Xbox 360 Extender, Xbox running XBMC
• STB: Telewest TVdrive
• TV: 42″ Hitachi plasma
• AV: Panasonic SAXR70
• Speakers: Tannoy 6.1EX
• Router: Netgear WNR854T Rangemax NEXT Wireless-N Router Gigabit Edition

Bedroom:

• TV: 32″ LCD
• Console: Xbox running XBMC
• Network: Netgear game wireless game adaptor

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