Can I pair a 460 with a 560 non-sli?

[Grail]

Thanks Bollwerk,

Reading those articles now. Do you think I could overclock about that high, with a heat sink like the Zalman CNPS5X?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...20110408230234

I just put that on my younger brother's AMD 965 machine I am building and I really like it. It seems well built and yet not too big; it didn't need a backplate and it doesn't seem to stress the motherboard. I think it could be a good aftermarket heatsink with a relatively small footprint - as long as I am not going for the highest possible overclock. One of my concerns was how many times we have heard that the ram slots are so often "too" close (as they were on my brother's motherboard) to the cpu socket and this heatsink looked like it would fit nicely. I am happy to report it didn't stick out over the socket area at all! I didn't want a situation where if I ever wanted to change the ram I would have to remove the heatsink!

I guess I should wait to see what comes with the 2500K-2600K. Is that the stock heatsink pictured at the beginning of the article? If so, it looks pretty buff; in either case I have heard of people getting good oc's with the Intel stock heatsink which is also a positive.

Thanks!

-Grail

p.s.- despite all the info in that article demonstrating the 2600K's superior performance in many applications, do you still advise the 2500K for what we do? Honestly, I won't be working with Visual Studio 2008 or anything like it. Also, if I go 2500K it will be easier to bite into the Sandy Bridge 6-core they briefly mentioned might be out later this year. I wouldn't pick it up right away, but if I ever wanted to try ten boxing...